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Partnership contracts bind non-signers from receiving benefits of a partnership. And with good reason: you wouldn't want any ole schmoe laying claim to the fruits of your labor.

Contracts deprive non-signers of things all the time. That's kind of the point.

Do you have a problem with corporations signing "exclusive" deals with other corporations?

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Yes, for party A to penalize party B for doing business with party C is an attack on free market competition which should be banned.

Penalize? So it’s ok for a group of people to enter a contract to form a corporation (“penalizing” non-signatories by preventing them from benefiting from the profits of the corporation)… but it’s not ok for a group of people to enter a contract to collectively bargain with a corporation (“penalizing” non-signatories by preventing them from benefiting from the contract).

This is absurd.

You’re saying a corporation cannot enter into a contract to be the exclusive supplier of a widget to another corporation?

“I won’t work for less than $x” is fine.

“You can’t hire anyone else willing to work for less than $x” is extortionate. Competition is necessary for a market.

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