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To oppose profit is to oppose life itself (thelibertylounge.wordpress.com)
submitted 1 month ago by CaseyWaterman@lemmy.world to c/libertarian@sh.itjust.works
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Many people on the left think that profit is “theft” or immoral in some way. This includes not just the authoritarian crowd but also some libertarian, free market anarchists. This is unfortunate because profit is not only morally justifiable, but also essential for human life.

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[–] ruuster13@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I agree and the message could be useful for someone who has been propagandized to the point where they literally associate profits with evil without ability to critically analyze what they believe. And there are plenty of those people. But the author avoids any mention of wealth hording (among other glaring omissions) and simplifies the "bad billionaire" problem to a few bad apples. The choice to ignore the scale of the problem or acknowledge how we got here through deregulation solidifies the piece as an attempt to maintain the status quo.