Contracts are about economic transactions. Relationships are about love and intimacy. Confusing the two leads to trouble.
@everickert @franklinveaux this is a far better basis for relationships than the more popular one of uncaused self-sacrificing devotion.
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@everickert@franklinveaux or more precisely the cultural narrative of / privileged demand for that, it not being a thing that exists. -
@chaosprime@franklinveaux I think I'm following. Just need you to help close the loop back to your original tweet :-) -
@everickert@franklinveaux it's a way in which the dynamics of a relationship are usefully understood in terms of economic transaction :) -
@everickert my quibble is that@franklinveaux is attempting to devalue contract relations in intimacy (which i agree with, they're shit) by… -
@everickert@franklinveaux …constructing economics and intimacy as specially separate fields, which i think is both incorrect and unhelpful. -
@chaosprime@franklinveaux And the "goods" on offer may change. I can't promise to provide intimacy in the future, at any price. Only now. -
@chaosprime@franklinveaux Which is all to say, the "currency" of intimate relationships is not amenable to contractual negotiations. -
@everickert Just so. And when we try to make it be, we plant the seeds of coercion.@chaosprime - 3 more replies
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