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> In a message dated 10/27/99 6:06:38 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
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> >jSpeaking of trivial activity, let's not forget that advertising
> >extracts a half trillion dollars from the economy per year and
> >has negligble value to the citizens.  It is of course the frantic
> >effort to overcome the endemic over consumption of the capitalist
> >system.
>
>     From whom does this "half trillion dollars" get extracted and why would
> advertisers attempt to overcome "over consumption"?  If advertising were
> eliminated would this "half trillion dollars" still exist? What does this
> "half trillion dollars represent?
> Yours,
> Issodhos
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The money is of course extracted from the economy, where else, and
must be paid for out of the wages of those doing productive work.
Over consumption must be overcome (lamely) else recession depressions
result since production must be stopped to prevent gigantic constipation
of the economic system.  What it represents is value extracted from
productive labor, which advertising is not.
wcm