It would be my preference that you would be found to be simply wrong and all the politicians and economists, their benefactors and the talking heads in the mass media actually had
an adequate enough understanding of the way the world works and a realistic recognition of the «placement» of the human species within the natural order of living things.
Without an
adequate understanding of the issues and the potential testimony at trial, the parties do not have
enough information to evaluate their chance of success and thus, their willingness to settle.