More on Getting Buy In

Think with me for a moment about business practices and labor practices.  Implied, and even stated, are certain contractual exzpectations.

A business will not cheat, will not lie, and will deliver what it promises on time and for the price set.

A laborer or labor union will do the job competently, on time, and for the wages agreed to.

That creates both a contract of employment and (even more) a social contract.

When businesses cheat, as did so many banking institutions before 2008 in bundling bad mortgages in with good ones and selling them as "good investments" a world wide recession gets created.  Trust is broken, people lose their homes, unemployment soars, and . . . well, you lived through it.  You get the picture, if you weren't stoned or drunk through the five years that followed.

When men and women are hired to do specific jobs, and spend their time gossiping, wandering around with a coffee cup in their hands, or leaning on shovels instead of working the employer's costs go up and the employer begins losing money, failing to meet realistic deadlines. and either goes out of business or gets the taxpayers to bail it out.

It's all part of the social contract that makes things work.  When people, unions, companies, governments all fail to voluntarily "do the right thing" all the time, to buy in to the implicit social contract, society falls apart.

When society falls apart, people are hurt, family are destroyed, commerce comes to a halt and progress in all areas of life grinds to a stop.

How do we get buy in from everyone to the basic social contract terms that will keep us going?  Will keep us reasonably safe?  Employed?  Employable?

Anarchists want to blow it all up.  But who wants to live in a world run by anarchists?

Think about it, and leave your thoughts on this topic in the comment field.  Thanks.