Ninth law of worker entropy

The anal paradox is a theory of negotiation. It proposes that as the number of people involved in negotiating a contract increases the contract’s brevity, and comprehensibility and utility decreases. The anal paradox predicts that the longer a negotiation continues, the more complicated the agreement will become, even though its meaningful content will stay constant or, more likely, decline.

Briefly stated, however anal it may be to add qualifications, clarifications, for the avoidance of doubts, without limitations and other pointless forensic flannel, once these additions have been added, it is even more anal for an opposing lawyer to remove them again, seeing as, Q.E.D., they make no difference to the legal or economic substance of the agreement.

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