The Value of Contracts

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I see a lot of the value of contracts between people or between companies as being a declaration of what's being agreed to rather than something that's fundamentally enforceable. I don't think we're going to come up with a computer system that can do a good job of that for us which is too bad because we aren't very good at it. We've just handed the world of technology over to opportunists who are building software companies, he says. The tech industry has really lost its way and has overwhelmingly focused on software which can't blame them. It's cheap and predictable to build and scale and sell and make money off of.

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