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America Economy Essay

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Rebekah Blair

3/28/19

America economy is something that has widely been changing throughout the years. Making money no longer exclusively relies on the creation of as a tangible product. Service sector is what makes it no longer relying on tangible products, it is the part of the economy that provides intangible services. This has been rapidly growing over the last thirty years. The book gives examples of the ranges: saying that it ranges from restaurant work, to health care provisions, to higher education, to legal or financial advice, to computer tech support, to deep-tissue massages. Basically, from my understanding, this is just a apart of economy that provides services to the customers. What this means to me and what I believe it means

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