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aidan@lemmy.world 7 months agoYou can restructure society to not require profit.
How do you define profit? If you mean creating value- no, you can’t. Life requires consumption of value. That is food, that is water, and medicine.
The economy exists currently purely to increase consumption
No. It exists because people want to exchange what they have for what they want.
Graylitic@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Profit is producing to sell goods in a positive feedback loop for more money. You don’t need to have profit.
aidan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
So your issue is people consensually exchanging their labor?
Graylitic@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Nope, but you’re free to continue building a strawman.
karakoram@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That’s no strawman. You just refuse to see that there is no universal way to decide upon value that fits everyone’s notion of it. If both people in an exchange come away satisfied, did one exploit the other? How do you strictly define the excess value on each side of the transaction? Your idea of a profit-less society doesn’t consider how we’d pragmatically exchange our labor to achieve that.