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Re:The Rise of Airbnb's Full-Time Landlords by TeMPOraL on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @12:50PM (#10540926)
> IMO it should not be about contracts. You should enter agreements in good faith and there should be social consequences for doing otherwise (reputation ruined, ... etc.). Be excellent to each other.

Exactly this! The consequence of letting people abuse trust on massive scale is more complicated contracts, which is a worse outcome than if everyone just agreed to act in good faith.

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Re:The Rise of Airbnb's Full-Time Landlords by dragonwriter on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @01:01PM (#10541030)
Yes, things would be much simpler if our societies were composed of angels rather than humans.
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Re:The Rise of Airbnb's Full-Time Landlords by TeMPOraL on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @01:06PM (#10541077)
That we aren't angels doesn't mean we should give up on striving to be them though.
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Re:The Rise of Airbnb's Full-Time Landlords by dragonwriter on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @02:20PM (#10541659)
It does, OTOH, mean that it is irrational to draft business contracts on the assumption that your counterparty is going to conduct themselves as one, absent some extraordinary evidence that the particular circumstances are unusual in that way.
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