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{{a|besci|}}The [[commercial imperative]] is the cold, hard bedrock of commercial reality which underpins every contract, every transaction, every ''thing'' about your relationship with your client, and which your client’s [[lawyer]] is certain to not understand.  
{{C|Psychology}}{{a|design|[[File:Honey-or-vinegar.jpg|450px|thumb|center|An old adage proved, yesterday.]]}}{{c|negotiation}}The [[commercial imperative]] is the cold, hard bedrock of commercial reality which underpins every contract, every transaction, every ''thing'' about your relationship with your client, and which your client’s [[lawyer]] is certain to not understand.  


If she does understand it, she will profess not to care about it, will claim it is beside the point, and insist on three acres of [[Verbiage|pointless legal mulch]] avoiding [[For the avoidance of doubt|all of the paranoid doubts]] that she can coax out of the darkened deeper recesses of her cranium. This is entertaining — for {{sex|her}} — but a ghastly waste of time for the better interests of commerce in the abstract, personified by ''you''.  
If she does understand it, she will profess not to care about it, will claim it is beside the point, and insist on three acres of [[Verbiage|pointless legal mulch]] avoiding [[For the avoidance of doubt|all of the paranoid doubts]] that she can coax out of the darkened deeper recesses of her cranium. This is entertaining — for {{sex|her}} — but a ghastly waste of time for the better interests of commerce in the abstract, personified by ''you''.  
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The [[commercial imperative]] is ''not'' beside the point. It ''is'' the point. It is, in [[the long run]] — when we personifiers of the better interests of commerce have been shunted from our mortal coil — the ''only'' point.
The [[commercial imperative]] is ''not'' beside the point. It ''is'' the point. It is, in [[the long run]] — when we personifiers of the better interests of commerce have been shunted from our mortal coil — the ''only'' point.


Game theoreticians will tell this story through the metaphor of the ''iterated'' [[prisoner’s dilemma]]. But it’s simpler than that.
Game theoreticians will tell this story through the [[metaphor]] of the ''iterated'' [[prisoner’s dilemma]]. But it’s simpler than that.


===Why merchants transact===
===Why merchants transact===
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*[[Prisoner’s dilemma]]
*[[Prisoner’s dilemma]]
*[[Grand unifying theory]]
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