To understand why profit is so important, we must first define it.

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To illustrate, let us consider the simplest economic system possible: that of a lone individual.

Libs continuing to pretend that humans aren't social creatures

He burns calories tilling the soil, chasing animals and so on (cost), and gains calories when he eats (revenue). He must receive more calories from the food he eats than he burns in the process of hunting or farming, otherwise he will die. He needs some calorie surplus (profit) in order to survive.

"Profit is necessary to life (if I use a weird idiosyncratic definition of profit that has nothing to do with the one used by Marxists)"

Attempts to eliminate profit killed millions of people. Even today countries under similar regimes, such as North Korea, Venezuela and Cuba face extreme food shortages.

"Pay no attention to the US sanctions and embargos behind the curtain"

But profit that comes at the expense of other people is bad.

And capitalist profits by definition come at the expense of the worker whose surplus value they appropriate. Thank you and good night.

He must receive more calories from the food he eats than he burns in the process of hunting or farming, otherwise he will die. He needs some calorie surplus (profit) in order to survive.

Do they have a lab somewhere to cook up takes this bad? How do you even manage to get your own basic-ass examples so astonishingly wrong? Is the point that everyone should be weight maxing? That's even before we go into any kind social theorizing.

I guess the best way to construct a wildly misguided ideology is to start from an incorrect premise.

Joked about it before but they’re finally starting to imply it: they think profit is a human right.

Interesting how working people seem to manage without it, but these porks will swear up and down they would die with even less profits.

Even today countries under similar regimes, such as North Korea, Venezuela and Cuba face extreme food shortages.

AES: please buy our reasonably priced oil, cigars and rum

Capitalist roaders: die already, we got an argument to win.

Western leftists: die already, state capitalists

Is it even sleight of hand when your analogy just goes "profit is when some guy lives, living is good, therefore economic profit is good"?

Ends up sounding like a lame version of the Calorie Companies from The Wind-up Girl. At least they recreated dinosaurs to wind clock springs.

lmao. this goes beyond ideology. Maybe something like ultlra death cult. Also complete failure to understand what profit is and stands in for. Usually its energy.

To oppose gambling is to oppose life itself.

Imagine Bob, a hunter gatherer alone in the wilderness. Danger besets him on all sides but he cannot sit idly by while his stomach empties. Instead he must throw the spear built by his own labor (bet) in order to get a chance at getting food (prize).

let me guess without reading: similar to "private property is just stuff owned by a person" this article goes with the assumption that "profit" is simply "what's left after income minus costs".

those commies just want to run every corporation at a permanent loss and bankrupt us ALL!!!

"Profit is like when you have extra berries!"

There's your immediate key misunderstanding.

In capitalism, profit has precisely nothing to do with what you make or harvest, and is entirely dependent on what you can take from others. Whether that's a net positive to society like growing and selling berries, or a net negative, like hoarding jobs to underpay and price gouge people.

Most of capitalism is the latter, simply because it's much more profitable.

baby brained and incoherent
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