jandrese
10 months ago
At first this seems like a fairly understandable "the workers didn't double check the property lines and accidentally used land they didn't own". That's bad, but the kind of mistake that anybody could make.
Where the whole story goes to shit is when SpaceX comes back with "here's a pittance, take it or leave it, you have 12 hours". That's like dealing with the mob. Musk could personally spend 0.000028% of his net worth to offer them double the current value for their land and avoid this whole story. Or at least not come across looking like a total asshole for once. Instead it is going to the court, where he is almost certainly going to lose as this is a fairly open and shut trespassing case, and end up spending way more in legal fees and fines.
When a regular person makes a mistake they try to make it right. When Elon makes a mistake he doubles down on it and tries to bully the other side.
mlindner
9 months ago
SpaceX offered fair market value for the property. The property wasn't worth much so "offering a pittance" is equivalent to "offering fair market value".
jandrese
9 months ago
CAH claims they offered about a quarter of the market value for the property.
Arnt
9 months ago
Where I come from, the polite offer would have been fair market value plus an apology factor. Making sure the recipient couldn't possibly see it as below fair market value.
Of course CAH wouldn't choose to sell for fair market value. But offering a low estimate is rude IMO.
indoordin0saur
9 months ago
I'm not necessarily going to take their word for it given the vitriolic, over-the-top tone of the blog post they made. More likely they saw the opportunity to get into the news and jumped at the chance for free publicity.
metabagel
10 months ago
> At first this seems like a fairly understandable "the workers didn't double check the property lines and accidentally used land they didn't own". That's bad, but the kind of mistake that anybody could make.
That is not an acceptable argument. If it's truly a mistake, then it's gross negligence.
> Musk could personally spend 0.000028% of his net worth to offer them double the current value for their land and avoid this whole story.
Elon Musk would probably have to offer considerably more than double the value of the land in order for Cards Against Humanity to let this go.