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Maybe never. The Homo Economicus model of human behavior as optimizing for expected economic return is only a first approximation. In some cases, human behavior
by rwallace 11y ago
Maybe never. The Homo Economicus model of human behavior as optimizing for expected economic return is only a first approximation. In some cases, human behavior is more accurately modeled as "Mine! My precious!"
- TeMPOraL 11y agoEven if Tesla is not willing to pay the amount the squatter wants, he may be hoping that Tesla's competitor will. By the way, the coolest thing Tesla could do, that would buy them a lot of love and good press, would be to buy tesla.com and donate it to Nicola Tesla Science Center.
- vacri 11y agoShouldn't that be tesla.edu rather than .com? Their current .org would also be more appropriate than a .com...
- imrehg 11y agoIt can't be, unless time travel... From Wikipedia: "Since 2001, new registrants to the [.edu top level] domain have been required to be United States-affiliated institutions of higher education, though before then non-U.S.-affiliated—and even non-educational institutions—registered, with some retaining their registrations to the present."
- cpeterso 11y agoYeah. I imagine if the offer and counteroffer are rebuffed, the squatter enters "well, now you're never gonna get it" mode.