It sounds too good to be true, but imagine a contract with the following features. You are required to invest all your free time and assets, but you have no rights and no legitimate expectation of a return. The other party may terminate the contract at will -- even if you haven't breached -- yet still may enforce the contract to keep what you already invested and compel you to continue making payments as if the contract still existed. Such payments are mandatory; you will be considered capable of making them even if you lose your job or the economy sours, and any deficiency or delay will land you in jail. Oh, and the terminating party also may keep all employees or customers generated from the venture. Granted, if you're lucky these things might not happen, but the terminating party still has the power to unleash them on you if you sign. Best of all, if you find fault with this arrangement or question the wisdom of entering it, you will be labeled as crazy or bitter.
Truth indeed is stranger than fiction.
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