Probate is slow, public, and expensive. Created by probate: an industry in avoiding it.
This is a need. Something a person cannot ignore. Non-negotiable, usually urgent, and the most reliable foundation for a business. It is felt by the heirs, once in a lifetime, and rates 3 out of 5 for the pressure it exerts.
It is rooted in Scarce time and Scarce resources.
This friction did not arise on its own. It was created by Probate — a solution to an earlier problem that produced this one.
The market has answered it in 2 ways: Trusts and Beneficiary designations and joint ownership
Those answers were not free. Between them they created 1 further frictions, which is where the next layer of industries comes from.
Its neighbourhood
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The line back to a human being
3 hops from a person at a phase of life. The further a thing sits from the person, the more abstract it looks — and the more it tends to be mistaken for something that came from nowhere.
- FrictionProbate is slow, public, and expensive
- SolutionProbate
- FrictionEverything owned must go to someone
- Life phaseDeath
- Rooted inMortality
- Rooted inScarce resources
- Rooted inScarce time
- Rooted inUncertainty
Relieved by
Every one of these is a business, an institution or a habit built on this single pressure.