>Movie theaters don't make much of their money from the actual tickets, but if they stopped showing movies no one is going to pay them $20 for a popcorn. The m

>Movie theaters don't make much of their money from the actual tickets, but if they stopped showing movies no one is going to pay them $20 for a popcorn. The more common version of the fallacy is, "Pharmaceutical companies produce nothing of value because look, most of their money is spent on marketing, not on discovering miracle cures." Yes, they spend on a ton of money on marketing to eke out whatever they can from a given discovery ... but that all depends on having a legit discovery to begin with.