Ethics and Values / Unit 3 Ethics 132 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Enforcement Changes the Game
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The idea
Enforceable agreement dissolves a prisoner's dilemma: when defection reliably costs more than cooperation, cooperating becomes each party's rational move.
In practice
Add an auditor with real penalties to the shaded-ledger firm and honest books become the profitable choice — which is the social contract's whole sales pitch.
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