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uvucyslvj • today at 2:13 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Personally I’m not a fan of doing business with somebody in the habit of breaking contracts.

Of course I’m sure it’ll be argued that breaking contracts is Actually Good if it makes you money.


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lp0_on_fire • today at 3:27 PM

This is my view as well.

If you will “break a contract” with someone as close to you as your spouse why would I want to do business with you? It’s pretty obvious you’ll stab me in the back the first chance you get.

Kevin_Flynn • today at 2:29 PM

Just like infidelity and divorce is good when the marriage was doomed due to personality conflicts.

It frees 2 miserable people, to find 2 other people, to potentially create the optimal condition of 4 content people.

The behaviors of the contract signers in the real world seems to be far more important than any recorded words on paper.

The US government and its leadership break promises repeatedly. Endless memes about things politicians say and do. Its citizens aren't defecting en mass because of it.

None of this is that surprising.

We've seen the plays before.

"The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirty-Six_Dramatic_Situat...

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