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I had anarcho capitalists tell me all they want from the government is enforcing contracts. Being a developer and mathematician I brought up edge cases right away: can a five year old sell themselves into slavery for a lollipop? I was kidding, but if you extrapolate, this comes close. Thankfully our society doesn’t let kids incur debts like that.

Dark patterns and contracts of adhesion make the idea of “personal responsibility” in contracting a bit quaint. That’s also why smart contracts may have problems in the real world - in the real world we have forgiveness and mitigating arguments.

Thanks to Privacy.com we can actually have some personal responsibility.



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