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In reply to the discussion: Within 10 Years Most Workers Will Be "Task Rabbits". R. Reich. [View all]The2ndWheel
(7,947 posts)And every organized effort wants to make the world in its own image.
Profit can be defined in numerous ways. One can be money. Another can be making the end of a stick just a little sharper. Or finding a longer stick. Figuring out what seeds to plant when and where. Finding a cure for cancer. Also greed.
I was mostly just questioning your use of the word should. Should according to who? To what? There's no objective right or wrong. Right and wrong have always depended on who wins. That's why people came up with God/gods/whatever in the first place. It's our attempt to give existence objectivity, which it doesn't have. It's why we came up with money. Trying to standardize objectivity. Money has value because we all agree that it has value. Or, enough people agree that everyone has to agree. We all agree that it's 2015, even though no such thing exists outside of our heads. Talk about a slavish serving of an invisible concept.