@everickert @franklinveaux or more precisely the cultural narrative of / privileged demand for that, it not being a thing that exists.
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Replying to @chaosprime
@chaosprime@franklinveaux I think I'm following. Just need you to help close the loop back to your original tweet :-)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @everickert
@everickert@franklinveaux it's a way in which the dynamics of a relationship are usefully understood in terms of economic transaction :)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @chaosprime
@everickert my quibble is that@franklinveaux is attempting to devalue contract relations in intimacy (which i agree with, they're shit) by…1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @chaosprime
@everickert@franklinveaux …constructing economics and intimacy as specially separate fields, which i think is both incorrect and unhelpful.3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @chaosprime
@chaosprime@franklinveaux And the "goods" on offer may change. I can't promise to provide intimacy in the future, at any price. Only now.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @everickert
@chaosprime@franklinveaux Which is all to say, the "currency" of intimate relationships is not amenable to contractual negotiations.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @everickert
@everickert Just so. And when we try to make it be, we plant the seeds of coercion.@chaosprime1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @franklinveaux
@franklinveaux@everickert Yeah. And my reason for keeping economic thinking in it is to point out that there's no reason the whole thing…1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @chaosprime
@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…1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@franklinveaux @everickert start, you should do something else, contracts explicit and implicit be damned.
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