Diamond dealers must pay cutters even when the stone never arrives.
Evidence
62 Diamond cutters are independent contractors and are often paid by the stone. Consequently, after contracting to purchase a piece of rough, a dealer will contract with a cutter. If he does not obtain the stone and does not have other work for the cutter to do, he will still have to pay the cutter. — Lisa Bernestein, Opting out of the Legal System, 228
Categorization
- QUESTION: This ‘pay despite no performance’ obligation mirrors the reliance-protection problem central to the reader’s network-closure analysis — worth mapping how reputational enforcement makes relying parties demand payment.