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Advertising isn't a crucible with which lazy, bigoted and incapable merchants can turn incompetency into success -- but one into which brains and tenacity and courage "can" be poured and changed into dollars. It is only a short cut across the fields -- "not" a moving platform. You can't "get there" without "going some."
It's a game in which the "worker" -- not the "shirker" -- gets rich.