It's an old and hackneyed cliche but a deal is only a good deal when all parties concerned win. Empathy is a rare quality in the food chain of our transactionally centred modern lives but if we are ever to return to economic stability it's a requirement at all levels in the procedure. To use yet another analogy, if you squeeze a balloon at one end it will only bulge at the other and if you squeeze too hard, well, you just burst the balloon.
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