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For example, positional goods can mean the good seems worth it to you because it increases your status, but by doing so it just lowers someone else's.

It's much harder to figure out that it lowers the LTV over a week or month.

This really lowers the motivation to achieve something good amongst all employees after a while.

It could still be a very good thing, for example if it lowers costs.

Another thing that seriously lowers the chances of successful transplantation is using anaesthetics.

Guess what, planning time does save time and lowers your cost of ownership.

AKA: Uber pays a lot to get ex: NYC and LA drivers, wins both markets, lowers payouts to make money.

This comment really lowers the level of conversation compared to the article.

Even if ultimately it just lowers the bar for the industry.

The point, I would suspect, is lots of people already know JavaScript, so it lowers the barrier to entry to embedded programming.

That generally lowers the cost of financial transactions ceteris paribus.

Nicotine is a known neurotoxin, it increases inflammation, lowers your hdl, raises your ldl, and stresses your endocrine system (adrenal et al.).

Also the article says things like: "[lowers] LDL and Total Cholesterol" but doesn't dive into the fact that lowering your total cholesterol is bad for your health.

There are some statements that I suspect make intuitive conclusions, and many of which I suspect are right (e.g., availability of birth control lowers the rate of abortions and unplanned pregnancies), but even those with which I agree are relegated to the portion of my mind that holds the "do not recite this" category of statistics.