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If quality is defined by success, the question whether superior alternatives ever lose out becomes trivial. They can't, by definition. And now you've made it h
by Certhas 9y ago
If quality is defined by success, the question whether superior alternatives ever lose out becomes trivial. They can't, by definition.
And now you've made it harder to discuss market failures and similar ideas, because you've eliminated some words that could intuitively be used to describe a useful distinction.
- blowski 9y agoThe problem is that people want market success to be a consequence of engineering quality. But a lot of people are interested in a lot more than engineering quality. So the products with the best code don’t necessarily make the most money. You could ask “why do some attractive people marry ugly people?”. It’s because your reasons for choosing something are not necessarily the same as somebody else’s.