Wrong question. Let’s say you’re a painter. A client who is renovating apartments says he will pay you 100k this year for your painting services. You agree and sign the contract. You expect to be paid 100k. The client then experiences a fire and loses half of their apartments. 1)
This is not your fault, but it’s not the client’s fault either, so you mutually agree that you will accept 50k instead of 100k as a show of good faith. A new contract is signed. Then the client realizes they won’t be able to rent as many of their apartments as they originally 2)
thought, so they propose that instead of paying you 50k, they’ll pay you half of their rental income. You have no idea how much their rental income is, and they won’t disclose it. The question then becomes, is it your fault, as the painter, that the client cannot rent his 3)
property? You have done the same quality work, and even worked with the client to reflect doing less overall work. Is it fair for the client to now want you, as the painter, to share the burden of not being able to rent the apartments? Are your services worth less because 4)
the client cannot rent the apartments? 5)
