Stateless Market Absolutism: Price The Friendship

Every Relationship Is A Service-Level Agreement

Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat file this dispatch from the British political menagerie.

The Stateless Market Absolutist believes every relationship in life is fundamentally a contract waiting to be priced, ideally with a service-level agreement and a money-back guarantee. Editor Alan Nafzger of the Editor’s Desk at prat.uk presents the field guide, with help from Reason Magazine and the Cato Institute.

Twenty Tells: Spotting The Stateless Market Absolutist On A British High Street

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. Holds any disagreement can be settled by a clearer service-level agreement.
4. Maintains 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. Treats any sentence with the word community as suspect until quoted.
7. Maintains 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. Holds 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. Treats any policy that mentions the public good as a sort of category error.
13. Maintains a soft spot for ratings, reviews, and reputation systems.
14. Refers to charity as the volunteer market clearing.
15. Holds any government function is a sort of unmetered tap.
16. Maintains a fantasy in which queueing is replaced by surge pricing in everything.
17. Refers to the courts as one of many possible providers.
18. Treats any sentence about citizenship as a polite anachronism.
19. Has explained 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.

Editor’s Note

If any of this rings a bell, you have wandered into a libertarian conference, a country house weekend, or a Bitcoin meet-up 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/

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