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

selestify 5y ago
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.
- Jon_Lowtek 5y ago
  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? ;-)
  - ben-schaaf 5y ago
    It's not for the benefit of the tourists at all, it's an advertisement to increase tourism for the benefit of local businesses.
    - Jon_Lowtek 5y ago
      Yet such adverts should not increase tourism because tourists must surely prefer to visit cities that offer benefits for tourists.
      - dylan604 5y ago
        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.
        SAI_Peregrinus 5y ago
        That's their point. Not everything done in a market economy is done with a goal of gaining a financial benefit.
      - selestify 5y ago
        > cities that offer benefits for tourists An aesthetically pleasing scenery would be one of those benefits.
Demiurge 5y ago
city user experience :) There is the same financial incentive for MS to fix their Y2k22 bug.
watt 5y ago
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.
- dijit 5y ago
  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?
  - dylan604 5y ago
    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.

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.

Jon_Lowtek 5y ago
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? ;-)
- ben-schaaf 5y ago
  It's not for the benefit of the tourists at all, it's an advertisement to increase tourism for the benefit of local businesses.
  - Jon_Lowtek 5y ago
    Yet such adverts should not increase tourism because tourists must surely prefer to visit cities that offer benefits for tourists.
    - dylan604 5y ago
      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.
      - SAI_Peregrinus 5y ago
        That's their point. Not everything done in a market economy is done with a goal of gaining a financial benefit.
    - selestify 5y ago
      > cities that offer benefits for tourists An aesthetically pleasing scenery would be one of those benefits.

Demiurge 5y ago

city user experience :) There is the same financial incentive for MS to fix their Y2k22 bug.

watt 5y ago

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.

dijit 5y ago
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?
- dylan604 5y ago
  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.