Talk:Service economy
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I would like to see a serious discussion of service economy. Service economy seems to me a mere ideology in a society who has no sense of purpose. And I don't see apologist of service enonomy caring much about environment as the article does.
Half-baked thoughts
The fact: Less and less people are working in production of physical products. Is this a reason for arbitrarily ranging everything else in services.
Marketting is taking a huge place. It was a win-win when it created a mass-market lowering cost for useful products. It is now a loose-loose proposition where huge amout of money are used to pit a carbohydrated drink against one another.
What are the services? Who benefit from these services? Many of these services don't benefit "normal" people but managers of the services enconomy (flight, restaurant, hotels, conferences) Is this high overhead system desirable when we realize that we live in a world of finite physical ressources?
[edit] comment on IBM
3rd paragraph, 1st line: "[...]Although it still manufactures computers[...]". IBM don't manufacture computers anymore (Lenovo bought that part), but still develop software, financial services, etc. I didn't dare change the paragraph, if someone feels more comfortable with it, if they think it is appropriate, go ahead.
IBM still sells computer servers and storage, as well as computer chips. Lenovo is just the personal computers.
