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'''The [[JC]]’s [[ninth law of worker entropy]]''': as the number of people involved in negotiating a {{tag|contract}} goes up, the contract’s brevity, comprehensibility and utility ''goes down''. Therefore, the longer a negotiation continues, the more compendious and ''[[tedious]]'' will the “[[fruit]]” of that negotiation — the [[verbiage]], in the vernacular — be, even as its meaningful commercial content will stay constant (or, more likely, ''decline'').
'''The [[JC]]’s [[ninth law of worker entropy]]''': As the number of people involved in negotiating a [[contract]] goes ''up'', its brevity, comprehensibility and utility goes ''down''. The longer a [[negotiation]] continues, the more compendious, and ''[[tedious]]'', will be its“[[fruit]]s”  — the [[verbiage]], in the vernacular — even as its meaningful commercial content stay constants (or, more likely, ''declines to vanishing point'').
 
Briefly stated, the paradox says this: however anal it may be to “[[Adding value|add value]]” through qualifications, clarifications, [[for the avoidance of doubt]]s, [[without limitation]]s and other forensic {{f|celery}}, once these “correctives” have been made it is even ''more'' anal to remove them again, seeing as, [[Q.E.D.]], they make no difference to the legal or economic [[substance]] of the agreement either way. So, inevitably, one won’t [[I’m not going to die in a ditch about it|die in a ditch about it]], however appealing by comparison that experience might, to a [[prose stylist]], seem, and the agreement will silt up to the point where its original intent is hard or impossible to make out.

Latest revision as of 13:30, 14 August 2024

The JC’s ninth law of worker entropy: As the number of people involved in negotiating a contract goes up, its brevity, comprehensibility and utility goes down. The longer a negotiation continues, the more compendious, and tedious, will be its“fruits” — the verbiage, in the vernacular — even as its meaningful commercial content stay constants (or, more likely, declines to vanishing point).

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