Thanks for the comment. I think tenants are still better off with a legal contract than not. Analogously, a money-paying tenant with a legal contract has some protections against a landlord raising rents, and gets a notice period and the option to refuse and go elsewhere; a money-paying tenant who pays cash in hand to an illegal landlord probably has less leverage to negotiate. (Although there will be exceptions.) Likewise, a sex-paying tenant is better off with a legal contract.
I realise that the law won’t protect everyone and that some people will have bad outcomes no matter what—I deliberately picked this example to make people think about uncomfortable trade offs—but I still think the general approach of trying to give people more choice rather than less is preferable.
Thanks for the comment. I think tenants are still better off with a legal contract than not. Analogously, a money-paying tenant with a legal contract has some protections against a landlord raising rents, and gets a notice period and the option to refuse and go elsewhere; a money-paying tenant who pays cash in hand to an illegal landlord probably has less leverage to negotiate. (Although there will be exceptions.) Likewise, a sex-paying tenant is better off with a legal contract.
I realise that the law won’t protect everyone and that some people will have bad outcomes no matter what—I deliberately picked this example to make people think about uncomfortable trade offs—but I still think the general approach of trying to give people more choice rather than less is preferable.