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by brownbat 2757 days ago
Nights and miles are the metric to separate out "high spend" customers, up until you establish a nights/miles metric and you encourage customers to game it...

I can see where he was going with the analogy to Gresham's, but maybe another G's law is a better fit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law