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"But making movies and books and other forms of unnecessary art still makes hundreds of billions of dollars of revenues every year."

in the u.s.: Hollywood's yearly revenue is around $10 billion.Legal or engineering services are a $200-$300 billion industries. Healthcare's yearly revenue is around $2 trillion.

"No one wants to pay for Google search. ". google is the rare example. in 2004 , advertising industry revenues were $264 billion vs $11.6 trillion total gdp. that's less than 5 percent. basically there is a lot less money in advertising. in general , if you want to keep your company independent , you've got more chance with a payment based business model.

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