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Pretty much by definition, the financier is not producing any fish. Their utility is in providing finance for the industry. While this does seem to have utility, in and of itself it doesn't produce anything. It is a role that exists to manipulate and imaginary construct (money).



If removing the financier causes fish production to drop, the financier was producing fish.


They mat, through directing caputal flows, have enabled more fish production. They certainly did not produce a single anchovy.

More likely, they inserted themselves into the production cycle somewhere they weren't needed, and started creaming off a proportion of the fisb trade, while actually adding nothing of value to the process.




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