[allears]

That ad exec certainly had a myopic point of view. Just like the old saying, "If you wear shoes, the world is covered with leather."

For sure, our economy depends on buying and selling, and buying and selling depends on advertising. Like other things that can be abused, advertising needs regulation.

But to say that "nothing" happens without money changing hands ignores a vast swath of the human experience. I pity the person who thinks that everything has a price in dollars and cents.

[verdverm]

I believe the comment about trading a dollar is more a comment on money being the medium of exchange. Humanity had a history without money, and while some bartering still exists, by and large we live in a society where money is how we trade in situations where you have something I want, but I lack something you want.

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“Nothing” can easily be understood as a rhetorical emphasis in that quote.