The "bloated" services sector

murphaph

I'm just trying to imagine what it would be like walking into a supermarket in Didier's world....all I can imagine (for those of you old enough to remember) is walking into Quinnsworth, only to find nothing but Yellow Pack product lines on the shelves. I tried to find some pictures but the packaging was so borning it appears nobody ever bothered to photograph it!

Just imagine trying to find that one thing you want, when everything in the shop has the same packaging colour scheme. Good luck! Didier totally underestimates the roll marketing/design plays in modern life. I'm not into the design side of things, but I know how important it is. These are not useless, unproductive jobs. We need a balance, not one thing or the other.

PeakOutput

murphaph wrote: »

I'm just trying to imagine what it would be like walking into a supermarket in Didier's world....all I can imagine (for those of you old enough to remember) is walking into Quinnsworth, only to find nothing but Yellow Pack product lines on the shelves. I tried to find some pictures but the packaging was so borning it appears nobody ever bothered to photograph it!

Just imagine trying to find that one thing you want, when everything in the shop has the same packaging colour scheme. Good luck! Didier totally underestimates the roll marketing/design plays in modern life. I'm not into the design side of things, but I know how important it is. These are not useless, unproductive jobs. We need a balance, not one thing or the other.

the german film goodbye lenin gives you a good idea of what shops were like in a communist regime described by the op

murphaph

PeakOutput wrote: »

the german film goodbye lenin gives you a good idea of what shops were like in a communist regime described by the op

Lol, spot on. So it does!

SeanW

ei.sdraob wrote: »

well said

the problem the OP has is that your job wasnt assigned to you from the Ministry of Plenty in their latest 5 year plan

But those 5 year plans were such a great success that they all came in ahead of time, in 4 years :P Tractor production is up Comrades.

johnnyskeleton

DidierMc wrote: »

You can't build an economy on walking dogs. Walking dogs won't get this country out of recession.

Sure, but no one industry could do that anyway.

You can't build an economy on computer games call centres either.

The point is this: an economy is based on the transactions between people who offer goods and services to each other for money. In a free market economy, any business which survives is a viable business and the cashflow that comes in to it is a sign that someone out there puts value on the good/service.

To say that it is not productive is a little bit like the way communism says "240m people need shoes, let's make 240m identical pairs of shoes per year." It is your view of what is worthy or not worthy imposed on other people. For example, I put no worth on mobile phone ringtones, yet people pay money for them. So while I think they are worthless, they are not worthless to everyone, and thus they have an economic value.

BlaasForRafa

murphaph wrote: »

I'm just trying to imagine what it would be like walking into a supermarket in Didier's world....all I can imagine (for those of you old enough to remember) is walking into Quinnsworth, only to find nothing but Yellow Pack product lines on the shelves. I tried to find some pictures but the packaging was so borning it appears nobody ever bothered to photograph it!

Just imagine trying to find that one thing you want, when everything in the shop has the same packaging colour scheme. Good luck! Didier totally underestimates the roll marketing/design plays in modern life. I'm not into the design side of things, but I know how important it is. These are not useless, unproductive jobs. We need a balance, not one thing or the other.

I recall that Quinnsworth had a level below Yellow Pack called KVI which iirc used to be in blue and white striped boxes or tins, they were for the real povs, that would be Didiers world

RichardAnd

BlaasForRafa wrote: »

I recall that Quinnsworth had a level below Yellow Pack called KVI which iirc used to be in blue and white striped boxes or tins, they were for the real povs, that would be Didiers world

I remember those. The KVI kitkats like bars tasted like card-board .