Comment by godelski

  > Perhaps I'm missing something?

Is that you're being extremely insulting, I'm just not sure who you're insulting more. Me, believing I missed the most widely discussed and obvious component of cost. Or you, for thinking such a low level addition makes an actual contribution to the conversation. It's a conversation killer either way because you call me a moron and over value your analysis.

You are missing that I've talked about how there's more business value than direct sales. You can easily infer from here that this means "the value outweighs the costs". What costs would those be? I think we all know the location costs money as well as the people who work there. These costs are such a universal experience it only makes me wonder about you? Do you not have a job or employ people? Do you not rent or pay a mortgage? Watch the news? Be on HN? Did you ever have a parent that worked, rented, or bought property? Family? Friend? These costs are literally at the core of our economy that people become failure with them as young children.

Yes, you have to infer some things. I'll have to write so much more if the only message that can be conveyed is the direct literal translation of my words. Which I don't think you expect because you're using natural language and expecting me to do the same with you.