[lbo-talk] Servant culture

[Shane Mage]

>
>>CBS News anchors Dan Rather and John Roberts both need cosmetics 
>>applied to their faces to produce whatever it is they both produce.
>
>Advertising is what they produce. At least by the logic of the NIPAs 
>- the value of commercial radio & TV is the value of the ads they 
>carry.
>
>Doug

But advertising can have no place in the NIPAs.  It is totally
an intermediate product, because its only purchasers are
producers who include its cost in the price of the final
products (only final products count toward GDP) they
produce.

Shane Mage

"When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all 
things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even 
downright silly.

When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all 
things are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true."  (N. 
Weiner)