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Does not compute. What's the financial benefit of selecting cities based on how well lit their photos are?


Better lit structures make photos of them look better. Tourists choose destinations to spend money at based on how good the photos of the destinations look.


that doesn't answer my question, i was asking why the tourist selects like that. How does selecting based on how well lit photos are create a financial benefit for the tourist? ;-)


It's not for the benefit of the tourists at all, it's an advertisement to increase tourism for the benefit of local businesses.


Yet such adverts should not increase tourism because tourists must surely prefer to visit cities that offer benefits for tourists.


You're such a troll. The benefits of tourists to the tourist for visiting a city can come in many forms, and financial benefit is rarely one of them. In fact, it typically comes at great financial cost.


That's their point. Not everything done in a market economy is done with a goal of gaining a financial benefit.


> cities that offer benefits for tourists

An aesthetically pleasing scenery would be one of those benefits.


A lot of things about humans is based on desire, not on logical conclusion or requirement. Humans do things because they want to, not because they need to or it's the logical or rational thing to do.

Evoking desire is key.


So taking this whole comment chain into consideration, why are Windows 11 and Teams going out of their way to be awful to use?

We agree that the Free Market(tm) incentives are to maximise desire even at an up-front loss (Fireworks, Lighting the bridge) but the parent said that it's free market economics that prevent Teams and Windows from being desirable to use.

Is someone wrong or am I misunderstanding something?

Is there more profit in awful things? Why does the Harbour bridge have lights then?


Why are we even trying to equate the 2 things? The harbor bridge has a very pleasant look and people want to accentuate that, so they have decided to put lights on it so that it can be enjoyed at night. There is a very pleasing affect from things being lit at night. Why why why is this hard/difficult to grasp?

That is so so so different from a group of engineers building a product and totally not grasping that while it technically works, it is not pleasant for the end users. It takes a certain level of asshattery to assume that the devs are going out of their way to make it this way.


city user experience :)

There is the same financial incentive for MS to fix their Y2k22 bug.




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