uneconomical

If your products are Target priced, it's uneconomical to care too much. If you work at McDonalds, caring too much will drive you nuts.

France is shutting theirs down because they are uneconomical.

Not because they are useful, but because then they fund a set of uneconomical businesses that no one else would invest in. TL;DR: don't downvote because you don't agree.

What do you do with a world or nation where 95% of the jobs are uneconomical to perform locally? When job growth is no longer linked to the economy, how do you employ people?

Until your site is worth targeting explicitly, that little bit of custom code can make it uneconomical to spam your site. You can also join with others who work to stop this kind of spam.

Their purpose is to increase the risk of the transaction thereby making it uneconomical. Crackers will always win if the payoff is worth the effort.

It's simply becoming uneconomical to have your own mobile OS without significant market share. The future here seems to belong to iOS and Android, at least for the foreseeable future.

Besides, saying "oh, but countries could, they just don't" is having your cake and eating it too - the fact that countries don't because it's massively uneconomical means that yes, it does take multiple countries to produce a can. It's a bit like saying "it takes a superpower to land men on the moon".

The effect is ultimately the same - categories of businesses, types of ideas, become uneconomical to explore because the cost of hiring - whether in hard cash or in equity - simply doesn't add up. As is often the case, the common good is good for you because - surprise - you don't exist in a vacuum from the rest of society.

But when you take into account the enormous opportunity cost of stocking that item and taking up shelf space for it that then cannot be used for something else that moves at greater volume, it becomes uneconomical. A SaaS app doesn't have the same sort of physical opportunity cost -- every dollar earned is a good dollar.

Since taller buildings have a larger footprint, at some point the interior offices no longer get the required amount of natural light, meaning they can no longer be used as a work-area, thus making the building uneconomical.

Of course that answer would have come at a much higher cost and for this problem it would have been uneconomical, but there are plenty of domains where MacCready's approach would have been suboptimal." Iterate faster" is a good lesson that I think is probably applicable for all of us, but the temptation to solve tangential problems is a hard one to resist and often unnecessary.

If the consequence indeed is as stated, it's not like customers would benefit much in the long term, as the newly introduced risk would render most online shopping totally uneconomical: what if someone successfully sues you for utilizing a "dark pattern", now all your customers can demand a refund "for free" -- without having to return the product? Lose all your past revenue AND your product stock overnight?

We're still building coal power plants, but the CO2 sequestration they're currently talking about would require burning ~25% more coal to power the process, making it so uneconomical that it won't ever happen. And since sodium-cooled fast reactors can also run on decommissioned nuclear weapons, decreasing the risk of nuclear proliferation, we have every reason to be using these technologies for baseload power and zero reasons not to.

Class actions can be frivolous or abusive in some cases, but in general they are a good thing because otherwise it would be uneconomical for individual plaintiffs to sue as the cost of going to court would exceed any award they could possibly win, and so tortfeasors would have no incentive to accomodate their requests or settle with them.

The only way it makes sense economically to build wind and solar is if the price of electricity goes up, which is ideal if you want people to freeze to death or die of heat stroke, or make your electric car uneconomical to run. I think that UK National Grid Status webpage is the best example of wind not working as a solution to electricity supply, unless you define the problem as "how to make expensive unreliable electricity" a la Germany and Denmark [2], who have the highest wind electricity generation in Europe and the most expensive electricity in Europe [3].

If the car is of an age old enough to be scrapped or donated, to buy an ECU or other Electronics for a similar car of a similar age probably means the replacement bits are worth more than the car is, which would make the whole exercise uneconomical, further increasing the number of scrap cars and thus, number of replacement ECUs, thereby increasing supply and reducing price.