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Compromise is a bad way to settle a disagreement, because its only advantage is that it takes less energy than finding out who is right.

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  1. Jeff Bezos

    Founder of Amazon in 1994 and of the space company Blue Origin in 2000

    Compromise, the advantage of compromise as a resolution mechanism is that it's low energy, but it doesn't lead to truth. And so in things like the height of the ceiling where truth is a noble thing, you shouldn't allow compromise to be used when you can know the truth.

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