DiscussionTableStakes
"Table Stakes" is a term that a colleague used frequently. I really like it. He used it in a variety of contexts, most frequently talking about the minimum stake you have to put forward to make a competitive software product. Maybe that means you have to have access to customer sales history and a few data engineers and data scientists to embark on building a product recommendation engine.
In the context of discussion, table stakes are the minimum amount of agreed upon terms you have to accept. You can't have a productive discussion about religion policy if one side will only accept government mandated atheism and the other side will only accept government mandated Buddhism.
For example: The Discussion Table Stakes religion policy from a libertarian perspective might be:
- Try to maximize the individual right to practice any religion.
- Try to maximize the individual right to practice no religion.
- Try to minimize the impact of individual religious practice or non-practice on others.