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Re:Andy Grove’s Warning to Silicon Valley by mistermann on Saturday March 26, 2016 @09:28PM (#11368394)
> If you get rid of advertising, you slow down the economy.

I can agree with that, but I wonder how much it matters, in different scenarios. For example, if instead of hiring someone to cut my lawn (increasing GDP), I cut my lawn myself. Since GDP is lower, is the world therefore a worse place than it might have been?

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