When SCOTUS ruled it was unconstitutional to prevent lawyers from advertising, then-Chief Justice Burger said he feared “a society overrun by hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts.” Since that ruling, the number of shysters being minted by law schools has grown six times (6x) as fast as the US population. And last year the ambulance-chasing industry spent more than a billion dollars (with a "B") on electronic advertising.
And that billion dollars by necessity had to be siphoned off from the US economy.
What was the largest section of The Yellow Pages?