Contracts aren't everything.

      People in our society make a big deal out of agreements, especially when it comes to wages.  A lot of people believe that if you agree to work for a certain wage, it automatically means it is fair.  But contracts aren't all there is to justice.  Justice also means that people get paid what they deserve in the first place, and that they keep what they deserve to keep.  Work value, effort, competition, and especially profits might all be factors, and an agreement doesn't mean that no one is being scammed.

       It is actually very dangerous for too many legal decisions and societal transactions to be based only on contracts and agreements.  People can be tricked, exploited, and leveraged into any kind of abuse with agreements when there are no other protections.  And even though everyone has gotten used to being expected to "read the fine print" and letting signatures be the last word on any matter, I think that more and more people will soon realize the limitations of legal paperwork without the foundation of true justice behind it.

      All the long and overwhelming "terms and conditions" that people have to sign before using any technology are one example of the risks that come with forcing people to agree to things. We all know that most people not only don't but probably can't read all the terms and conditions for almost every service that grants us access to most public participation and trade, and we all know that the personal information that is supposedly now the property of people who got us to click certain boxes gives complete strangers an absurd and dangerous amount of power over all kinds of people, including vulnerable populations like children. At some point, the agreements will have to be over-rided by more important factors and logic.

      Here is a more specific example: I signed up to pay my rent from an automated system because the property management company kept pretending not to get my checks.  When I signed up, I had to agree to their terms, and one of the terms said that they were not responsible for lost money even if the reason was negligence on their part.  I literally had to agree that negligence would be okay in order to pay my rent.  It is absurd, and if negligence happens, do you think it will hold up in court?  I don't think it will, and I think they don't think so, either, otherwise they would have done it.  But some things they will go ahead and try to get away with, and in this corrupt society, there is agreement after agreement that people try to get people to sign in order to have all the power.

      But it isn't automatically justice to honor all contracts, and if we put too much stock in it, the rampant abuse could suddenly mean that contracts have no power, which is also dangerous.  Systems and laws simply can't save a bad society.  They can only protect the good that is already there.  That is one of the moral laws that governs reality, whether people agree to it or not.