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Originally Posted by VanishingPoi
Why does it all have to be about profit? Maybe the rest of that corn, potato, whatever can go to the folks who can no longer work, say your grandmother. Who knows, maybe you could export it to other starving people. The potential is endless. Not everything has to be profit driven.
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It's all got to add up somehow. Economics is how we try to understand this stuff, and politics is how we deal with the power to decide things, but in the end it comes down to physics. Activity has to create surplus value, or else it has to be sustained by surplus from somewhere else, or eventually it's going to run down.
It doesn't all have to be about 'profit,' as long as there's enough. Think hierarchy of needs. The surplus is economic 'food and drink.' Without it, you'll never even get to maintenance, or growth, or learning and research, or anywhere near to charity and art.