Profit is Moral: The Ethical Case for the Profit Motive

Associated Content ^ | June 4, 2007 | G. Stolyarov II

[G. Stolyarov II]

All too often today we hear condemnations of the profit motive as destructive and uncaring. But is it really? Or is the profit motive one of the noblest forces that can impel a man to act?

To understand whether the profit motive is desirable, we must first grasp the goals of a life properly lived. These goals are twofold; on the first level, survival is the goal of sustaining one's biological existence and preventing one's downward slide toward poverty, ruination, and death. On the second level, flourishing is the extension of one's control over the external reality-the ability to harness ever more elements in the service of one's life.

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