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do you have any sense of real numbers? why don't you try to come up with your figure of a little over ten billion for the american film industry? you won't, the numbers are easy to find and they ain't ten billion.

i think you'll find porn roughly equivalent to the indoor water-park industry in size.

i'll never cease to be amazed that the american public is afflicted with such innumeracy that a story like that seems credible.



The easy jab is to blame the sorry state of education but that doesnt fly here...

This has been an "affliction" since the mid 1980s, and we can thank the economic/financial "trauma" reported in the media regarding Junk Bonds-Milken, Charles Keating & the S&Ls...and Bruce McNall bankrupting himself and 17 other investors to get Wayne Gretzky to play hockey in a city where the temperature rarely dips below 60 even in the heart of winter.

What do I mean? The public is shellshocked when it comes to media reporting of anything economic or financial, especially figures. Since those traumatic events people have been either extremely reluctant or extremely eager to believe whatever suits their fancy or ill-suited grasp of math and/or reality. Porn is exceeded in wild fantasmical accounting illusions only by Drugs, the war on such and the apparent societal costs of both...