Tenth law of worker entropy: Difference between revisions

Of any [[agency problem|agent]], the point at which {{sex|her}} immediate concern — making enough of an intervention to convey an air of {{sex|her}} own indispensability — is eclipsed by someone else’s. Especially if that someone else is ''also'' an [[agent]] in the service of the same [[principal]], and extra-specially where that [[principal]], by dint of its [[legal personality|corporate personality]] or its [[ultimate client|great remove from the details of the matter at hand]] is in no position to assert its own view of what is in its best interests.  

Each parcel’s owner, a [[principal]], has for one reason or another little capacity to observe or intervene in this game, but participates in it all the same because of a perceived historical tendency of parcels, in general, to rise in value over time at a greater rate than are they atrophied by this environment of persistent, universal [[rent-seeking|rent-extraction]]. Not always — as unit holders in [[Fairfield Sentry]] would no doubt attest — but nonetheless ''generally''. As a rule, over the the run of western civilisation, the tide of prosperity has consistently risen, lifting all the millions of little dinghies upon it, even though each one’s hull has sprung a little, obligatory, leak.

So, the “[[care horizon]]”, and honour amongst thieves.  The [[JC]]’s [[tenth law of worker entropy]] which we will call the [[rule of collective agency]] is this: I will allow you ''your'' [[pedantry]] as long as you grant me ''mine''. It is bad form to impinge on another agent’s reasonable aspiration to [[rent-seeking|extract rent]].