# Essays — Redeal

Thought pieces on fair dealing: what fairness means, how to strike deals
between people and agents, and the ways deals go wrong. Occasional and
long-form.

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## Index

- **001 — What does it mean for a deal to be fair?** (15 Aug 2026 · 7 min)
  Fairness is not a feeling about an outcome. It is a set of properties a
  procedure can provably satisfy. Envy-freeness, sealed inputs, no
  discretion, verification: what a fair deal consists of, and why machines
  need it more than people do.
  https://redeal.dev/blog/what-makes-a-deal-fair
  (markdown: https://redeal.dev/blog/what-makes-a-deal-fair.md)

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