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Schelling talks about “the right to be sued” as an important right that businesses need to protect for themselves, not because anyone likes being sued, but because only businesses that can be sued if they slip up have enough credibility to attract customers.
-- Scott Alexander
I think about this every couple of weeks. Seems deep and underappreciated.
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14Zack_M_Davis
I would recommend actually reading Schelling's The Strategy of Conflict. Popularizers like Alexander do great and important work in exposing the highlights to a large audience, but there's no real substitute for getting the details from the primary literature.