You've Already Contracted...Without Knowing It
You’ve Already Contracted… Without Knowing It Following on from my previous blog, “The Game of Joinder” , we now turn to what happens after you’ve unknowingly agreed to play the game. Once they’ve tricked you into answering as the legal person, something else happens quietly in the background: You’ve already entered into contract. And you probably did it many times, without ever reading a single word . When you applied for a driver’s licence, a bank account, a passport, or even registered to vote, you entered into a contract with the system. But here’s the catch: You were never told the full terms. These are adhesion contracts - one-sided agreements where the institution holds all the power, and you are presumed to agree by virtue of your behaviour. If you use the benefit (like driving with a licence), you’ve accepted the terms, whether you read them or not. Wait… doesn’t that violate basic contract law? That’s where it gets even more deceptive. In ...