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Do you think this is right?

If 100 years ago, we didn't pay celebrities and sports stars as much as we do, and we had focused more on the trades of life such as philosophy and psychology and the sciences etc... would we be in debt? 

It seems that it would make up most of our debt if most of it had come from over 100 years of accumulating paying people ridiculously high prices for thhings that should not be that high priced.

And yes i am aware of marketing 

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If you are referring to government debt, you need to understand that the government doesn't pay celebrities nor sports stars. In other words, the economy doesn't work the way you seem to be implying.

If, instead, you are implying that having more philosophers or whatever would increase our GDP, well..., it still doesn't work that way. Only a fraction of the population is needed to keep everything running smoothly. The rest are just dead weight. Shifting the dead weight around will not improve our bottom line. ;)

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Supply and demand bitches! Suuuuuupply-and-D-mand!

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