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> With a handshake and a reputation at stake, you could sail to the other end of the world, spending years out of contact with your business partners, yet secur
by jarsin 4y ago
> With a handshake and a reputation at stake, you could sail to the other end of the world, spending years out of contact with your business partners, yet secure in knowing they would honor their word.
How far we have fallen. We replaced handshakes with contracts that most people followed. Now few even follow contracts and break them willingly all the time.
Every job/business arrangement seems to just bring in more people into your life that you will hate someday.
- jseban 4y agoMore like a handshake, a reputation at stake, and a threat of death penalty, if you want to take a more honest look at what would happen if you committed mutiny.