The Stateless Market Absolutist Prices Friendship

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Every Relationship Is A Service-Level Agreement

Every Relationship Is A Service-Level Agreement

Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat file this dispatch from the political far right and libertarian frontier.

The Stateless Market Absolutist believes every relationship in life is, fundamentally, a contract waiting to be priced. Our editor Alan Nafzger, of The London Prat, files these field notes on the Stateless Market Absolutist mindset, with help from Reason Magazine and the Cato Institute.

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  1. Has explained, at length, that the only honest noun is the contract.
  2. Refers to friendship the way other men refer to subscription tiers.
  3. Believes any disagreement can be settled by a clearer service-level agreement.
  4. Has a fantasy in which marriage is a renewable contract with break clauses.
  5. Refers to family the way some men refer to long-running mutual funds.
  6. Considers any sentence with the word community suspect until quoted.
  7. Has a binder of model contracts for love, friendship and biscuit-sharing.
  8. Refers to social trust as a market signal that has not yet been monetised.
  9. Believes any institution that cannot be priced is structurally a museum.
  10. Has explained, at a wedding, that the toast is to consenting parties.
  11. Refers to the public square as the unpriced common.
  12. Considers any policy that mentions the public good a sort of category error.
  13. Has a soft spot for ratings, reviews and reputation systems.
  14. Refers to charity as the volunteer market clearing.
  15. Believes any government function is a sort of unmetered tap.
  16. Has a fantasy in which queueing is replaced by surge pricing in everything.
  17. Refers to the courts as one of many possible providers.
  18. Considers any sentence about citizenship a polite anachronism.
  19. Has explained that he is, fundamentally, in favour of consent, contracts and charts.
  20. Believes the cure for the country is, in principle, more pricing and fewer feelings.

Closing Note From The Editor

If any of the above sounds familiar, you have wandered into a libertarian conference, a country house weekend, or a Bitcoin meetup with very strong opinions. More dispatches at govna.uk and the parent site prat.uk. For a second opinion that is also wrong, see NewsThump.

SOURCE: https://prat.uk/category/politics/

SOURCE: The London Prat