Ah. Clearly I misunderstood. If you take everything (including the savings account industry) then yes, advertisements just lead to reallocation. But that's just

Ah. Clearly I misunderstood. If you take everything (including the savings account industry) then yes, advertisements just lead to reallocation. But that's just what money is for: it's to allocate to things you want. If that's the claim, then I'm going to bow out of this discussion because I think it's unproductive since the purpose of practically all things one does is the allocation of resources. Since it's not a distinguishing feature of advertisements, I think it's a pointless discussion.