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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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.

IOW, iIt seems to me that market reach has to be profitable, or it wouldn't be the business goal. If serving every little town between Wasilla and Okeechobee, you don't make any more money than by serving only Tokyo, you'll do that.

But having a larger operation is one of the most basic principles of efficiency, which should translate pretty directly to increased profit and lower prices (to increase market share).