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To: central_va
Once a new car reaches the customer all that shipping, marketing, retailing added NOTHING to the value of the car. Who sat in their new car and thought about the cool train it shipped on or the car dealers furniture? Nobody. Those services didn’t create anything.

It sounds like you have no idea what it means for a product or commodity to be more valuable in one location than another. Take a Honda that is rolled off the assembly line in Marysville, Ohio. If those cars could only be sold to people who walked to the plant, the company wouldn't even be able to sell enough cars to justify building the plant in the first place.

I don't care what the customer "thinks" the value of the shipping process may be. The reality is that when they sit in a new car, they are sitting in something that they never would have been able to own without the shipping process that brought it to the dealership where they bought it.

79 posted on 01/18/2017 8:04:43 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Yo, bartender -- Jobu needs a refill!")
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To: Alberta's Child
I didn't say the services of shipping, marketing and retailing are not useful. THEY DO NOT CREATE WEALTH.

To create wealth means you created something tangible, something that can be touched. Services just transfer wealth from one person to another it is not a creative process. The most important way to create real wealth are to "make it, mine it, grow it or construct it". Any other economic activity that does not involve those things are secondary services.

82 posted on 01/18/2017 8:11:44 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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