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> If a company makes promises that it can't keep, then what.

If the company is allowed to break the promise, then it benefits at the cost of trust. Not merely trust in the company, but trust in general. This ends up being a cost on all other entities (actual or legal) who will ever depend on trust. In short, it is a form of theft.



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