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{{a|work|}}{{d|Easance|/iːzˈᵊns/|n|}}A JC-own coinage | {{a|work|}}{{d|Easance|/iːzˈᵊns/|n|}}A JC-own coinage meaning the opposite of a [[Hindrance|hindrance]]. | ||
Something — a tool, a technique, a convention, a consensus — designed to take away faff, defeat jobsworths, eliminate those whose pettifoggery with ''form'' comes at the expense of ''substance''. | |||
But | Terms and conditions are an easance. [[Definitions]], generally, are. The {{isdama}} is — well, started out life as — an easance. | ||
Easances are, by nature, states of higher order. But it is in the nature of the entropic universe — the [[laws of worker entropy]], as a set, predict that order tends to deteriorate — that easances, when not actively defended, will decay and in time invert, converting themselves to [[Hindrance|hindrances]]. Where easances are states of functional order: good design, efficiency, clarity and effectiveness, hindrances are states of disorder, haphazard organisation, confusion and disfunction. Easances have ''low'' entropy; hindrances have ''high'' entropy. | |||
This has, per our argument [[The purpose of an ISDA|here]], happened to the ISDA. The upper bound of a hindrance is described by the [[eighteenth law of worker entropy]] — which is the point at which a hindrance is ''such'' a pain in the arse that the thing being hindered is no longer worth doing at all, whereupon one must m | |||
The magical thing about hindrances is that, as the thing being done — call this an “enterprise” — increases in scale, the relative amount of hindrance its sponsors will tolerate also scales, in increasing proportion to the value of the enterprise. Ie, the ratio tends toward — but, we think. never quite gets — to 1. | The magical thing about hindrances is that, as the thing being done — call this an “enterprise” — increases in scale, the relative amount of hindrance its sponsors will tolerate also scales, in increasing proportion to the value of the enterprise. Ie, the ratio tends toward — but, we think. never quite gets — to 1. | ||