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A mutually beneficial agreement can still be adversarial? If you're getting shaken down by the mafia it's beneficial for you to pay them protection money.

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You’d be better off without the shakedown altogether. Not true for a job you willingly take and stay in.

"The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will."

-Henry George

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