Originally Posted by jwb

it's not impossible but more times than not one party has more leverage. It's sorta a hell of a coincidence if both parties have equal leverage.

Look at marriage for example. If you go in without a prenupt the less wealthy party has way more economic leverage in terms of threatening divorce. If you go in with a prenupt the scenario is reversed.

Or even in a relatively l relationship.. one party is often more invested it than the other. They are the one with less leverage in that relationship. I'm sure you can relate.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.