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You can be left exactly as high and as dry as the contract you signed stipulates, and if you have a dispute we have a pretty good system to work that out.
by thegrimmest 3y ago
You can be left exactly as high and as dry as the contract you signed stipulates, and if you have a dispute we have a pretty good system to work that out.
- Dylan16807 3y agoFair contracts need negotiating power on both sides.
- themitigating 3y agoEqual negotiating power
- brigandish 3y agoI’m not sure about equal as life can be messy (you have a cash flow problem and need to sell now, the buyer knows that - can that be equal?) but certainly fair should be a good start.
- harimau777 3y agoAs a practical matter, that doesn't work when the power imbalance is so great that one side doesn't have a realistic way to negotiate the contract. I.e. if the best job that someone can negotiate is one where they are being exploited or abused, then that doesn't make the exploitation/abuse any more just.
- nextaccountic 3y agoThe trouble is that most people will become homeless if they don't get a job. As long as there is a steady rate of unemployment, there are people that can't meaningfully decline whatever conditions are in their employment contract. And that's what this pretty good system doesn't account for: the inherent coercion of a fundamentally unjust system