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Spam!

It should come as no surprise that spam is a destructive economic activity. I'm not sure advertising (as we do it) is a productive process, but spam definitely is not. If the response rate is so minute as to produce a modest few billions as an industry, and that industry causes one hundred billion of dollars in losses, that's not a productive industry.

The bigger question to me seems to be how desperate are people who actually use spam and purchase things like viagra that has been cut with other substances (making it harmful).