katysails wrote:
Marketing and the fashion industry are just two of the areas that are
art-based...if either was eliminated, the economy would dive....

Especially marketing. How in the world would our massive
consumer-products industries survive if they couldn't
convince people to go into debt to buy things they don't need?

I'm not sure how much "art" is really involved in
advertising, certainly it is somewhat of a creative (in an
applied way) field. This may be what Binary Charlie was
referring to when he said "Art DRIVES the economy." And
while it's a bit of a stretch of the definition of "art" I
agree... how much Budweiser beer would get sold if they
didn't spend millions advertising it?

DSK