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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
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To bargain successfully, it's not only necessary for you to have something valuable to trade: you also need to have *leverage*. You need to have *options*. The other side has to believe that if they lowball you, you will go do a deal elsewhere.
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2026-08-18T15:12:01.760Z