no but Shane is right that in Marx, financial services don't produce value; nearly all financial services can be analysed as either loans (which aren't productive; they're just part of the arrangement of production) or insurance (which is a redistribution of already produced surplus).
On the other hand, investment reports and tax returns are concrete services that people want, so I suspect that these would count as production in the Marxist sense too, and the computer revolution has certainly made it a lot easier to generate them. best dd -----Original Message----- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jayson Funke For example, when I worked at Mellon Financial we produced tax returns, investment reports, and many custodial services in which my labor added value to a product sold to clients. Is menial physical labor the only labor that adds value? Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 30
