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I sometimes use a container ship example. Management makes decisions about steering course and that is possible when you have small cargo. If you decided to pile up 1 kilometer tall stack of containers and didn't bother laying some of them down at the port then you'll have damn hard time steering the ship. You have to make sure it doesn't topple over completely by that point.

That's because it's unique. The tower of Piza is like several other towers if you take out the leaning part.

It's beautiful and also a very important piece of Romanesque architecture. It's probably the greatest example of circular bell tower. I'm sure that if it was not leaning, it would be still very appreciated, maybe not by the postcard turists but surely not considered "like several other towers".

>it's probably the greatest example of circular bell tower.

Yeah, but in Italy those are a dime a dozen.

A vertically straight "The Leaning Tower of Pisa" won't sell tickets though.

It's not a bug, it's a feature.

That's why its like the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and not like'A Tower'.