[Corentin Debailleul]

On page 2 of this article, you write that “Business per se – namely, purchases, sales and manipulation for the sake of redistribution and differential accumulation – is external to industry proper and therefore has nothing to contribute to it. Its only connection to industry is negative, via ‘sabotage’.”

Industry has indeed to be sabotaged when society heads too far to the right side of Figure 1. But wouldn’t business have to propel industry when we move too far left?

This last hypothesis is also commonsensical: what are advertisements, fashion, sales representatives, etc. for if not to forge new needs and stimulate consumption, hence industry?

In that sense, business would not only be a negative force but a productive one as well.

@Jonathan, could you clarify this point?

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