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It's not incompetence. It's a deliberate negotiating tactic, designed to tire the opponent and force him to agree to suboptimal terms.



Yeah it's a lot harder to ascribe something to incompetence when it just happens to help the "incompetent" party avoid a cost (or bad press).




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