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> Courts and lawyers are the opposite of trusting who you're doing business with. Courts are extremely expensive and time-consuming. Contracts are definitely n
by thwayunion 4y ago
> Courts and lawyers are the opposite of trusting who you're doing business with.
Courts are extremely expensive and time-consuming. Contracts are definitely not the opposite of trusting who you're doing business with. If you do not trust someone to fulfill their side of a contract, you probably don't bother writing up the contract. The contract is there to punish breach of trust, not to establish trust.
Security is the opposite of trusting who you're doing business with. There's a reason super markets -- the most common type of business operating without high trust -- employ loss prevention professionals.
Notice that the blockchain offers no substantive defense to a five finger discount...
- everfree 4y ago> The contract is there to punish breach of trust, not to establish trust. If someone can only be trusted under threat of punishment, that means that they aren't actually trustworthy in the first place. I think we might have different definitions of trust. If I fully trust someone, to me that means that I know there's no need for the threat of court at all, because I can be sure that they will uphold their word even if it's in their better financial interest to break it.