Fruits of the Profit Motive

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Imagine all your favorite products. They are made in profit-based organizations such as this one. Love it, or oppose it at your own risk and with no misunderstandings about your program of destruction by selflessness.

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This isn't about being relatively materialistic: if you like toothpaste, refrigerators, t-shirts, music recordings, and wearing clothes that you didn't make, then welcome to the world of gratitude to profit-chasers.

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Some producers of goods and services got sucked into our artificial housing bubble, obviously such as the architectural and building industries, but part of why I wanted to post this is to acknowledge the makers of literally millions of goods and services, which as a whole certainly make our lives more pleasant and convenient, which we would want for any human being, especially with all the improved hygiene and health and broadened horizons of a wealthy society - which is one that allows the profit motive to do its thing (while respecting everybody's rights, just as everyone in a lawful society has to do).

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I don't understand why market share would be fundamentally motivating to human beings and not profit. Maybe I'm just thinking like a psychologist when your framework indicates a different bottom line. What kind of analysis? Maybe of the kind where, if you want A, but aim at A, you don't get as much of A as if you'd focused on getting B, which brings about A much faster than trying directly to obtain A. But it all is going to come down to: why are people doing what they're doing? In business, in the business of making money for oneself to spend and/or save, getting more is the bottom line, personally, and as a fiducary manager, in representing the defined financial interests of the business/owners

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I mean, you'll do business just in Tokyo.