Contracts are about economic transactions. Relationships are about love and intimacy. Confusing the two leads to trouble.
@everickert @franklinveaux …constructing economics and intimacy as specially separate fields, which i think is both incorrect and unhelpful.
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@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 -
@franklinveaux@everickert Yeah. And my reason for keeping economic thinking in it is to point out that there's no reason the whole thing… -
@franklinveaux@everickert shouldn't be positive sum, so if you aren't getting value out of it and don't see any likelihood you're going to… -
@franklinveaux@everickert start, you should do something else, contracts explicit and implicit be damned.
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@chaosprime@franklinveaux My "price" may change. What I want today may not be what I want tomorrow. What's ok today may not be tomorrow.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@chaosprime@franklinveaux Ah, ok. I see where you're going. The problem is, I can't contract for relationship "transactions." Because...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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