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> All contracts are a restraint of trade of some form. I don't follow... how is this true? "I will give you X and you will give me Y" is a contract right? What

> All contracts are a restraint of trade of some form. I don't follow... how is this true? "I will give you X and you will give me Y" is a contract right? What is it restraining either party from doing?

dmurray 4y ago
Giving X to someone else who offers me more for it.
- dataflow 4y ago
  That seems... wrong? Say Google offers you 2 TB of storage space for 1 year for $100. You're saying that's preventing you from simultaneously paying Microsoft $100 for > 2 TB of storage storage? Or that that's preventing Google from giving someone else 2 TB of storage space for > $100? What exactly prevents both parties from doing this with multiple counterparties?
  - dmurray 4y ago
    If you have lots of X, sure. But instead of something incredibly fungible like storage space, suppose I had instead agreed to sell you the Empire State building.
    - dataflow 4y ago
      I thought the claim was "all contracts are a restraint", not "there exists a contract that is a restraint"?
DocTomoe 4y ago
If I buy all of object X, no object X can be sold in Montana.