The future cannot be known and other people cannot be fully trusted. Uncertainty is the most productive constant in the whole map: credit scores, insurance, inspections, ratings, titles, audits, testing, and most of finance exist to convert an unknown into a priced risk. When you cannot identify the friction behind an industry, uncertainty is usually the answer.
48 frictions in this map are rooted here.
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Infancy
Childhood
Adolescence
Early adulthood
Household formation
- Bind two lives legally and financially
- Tenant may damage the unit or stop paying
- Lose the home if income drops
- Borrower may not repay
- The property may have defects the buyer cannot see
- The seller may not truly own what they are selling
- Locate a suitable dwelling among opaque options
- Prove reliability to strangers with no track record