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And business creates them when it's able to meet a need at a profit.
Business generates those resources when it makes a profit.
That profit is that small difference between the price and the cost it takes to produce whatever solution business has created to whatever problem they're trying to solve.
But that profit is the magic.
Because that profit allows whatever solution we've created to be infinitely scalable.
Because if we can make a profit, we can do it for 10, 100, a million, 100 million, a billion.
That's what business does when it makes a profit.
Well, one line of thinking is, let's take this profit and redeploy it into social problems.
The conventional wisdom has been that business actually makes a profit by causing a social problem.
Business does not profit from causing social problems, actually not in any fundamental sense.
That's where the real profit comes.
We've learned today that actually reducing pollution and emissions is generating profit.
Again, marketers tell us that big data and social media are not just a paradise of profit for them, but a Garden of Eden for the rest of us.
These folks see that same vacant land and those same abandoned homes as opportunity for new, entrepreneurial ideas and profit, so much so that former models can move to Detroit, buy property, start successful businesses and restaurants, and become successful community activists in their neighborhood, bringing about very positive change.
And with centralized manufacturing, you can control the quality control, and you can hit that $80 price point with profit margins built in.
And now, those profit margins are critical, because if you want to scale, if you want to reach all the people in the world who possibly need a knee, it needs to be economically sustainable.
In a few short years, we have shown that our model works, is high-impact and can turn a profit, attracting commercial investors that do not typically invest in small farmers in Africa.
After, there is people like me, who try to deserve to exist, and who are so ashamed to make this useless job, who try to do it in another way, and they try, I try, to not make the object for the object but for the result, for the profit for the human being, the person who will use it.
If the global finance sector continues to lend money to tobacco companies, to invest in tobacco companies, and to strive to profit from tobacco companies, we are working against each other.
Is there no baseline standard below which we will not sink to make profit?
The profit motive is transforming health outcomes in this world.
I think this drive for profit is extremely powerful, sometimes more powerful than the most committed charity or government.
So in order to undermine the power and profit of these groups, we need to change the conversation.
This invasion of others is a raw material, efficiently and ruthlessly mined, packaged and sold at a profit.
I started in my 20s trading commodities, cotton in particular, in the pits, and if there was ever a free market free-for-all, this was it, where men wearing ties but acting like gladiators fought literally and physically for a profit.
This chart is corporate profit margins going back 40 years as a percentage of revenues, and you can see that we're at a 40-year high of 12.5 percent.
Share of Income Going to Labor vs. CEO-to-Worker Compensation Ratio"] Now, higher profit margins do not increase societal wealth.
Juxtapose that to the earlier chart of corporate profit margins, and I ask you, does that feel right?
This is the decision to change a system that is broken, and that we have unwittingly but willingly allowed ourselves to profit from and benefit from for too long.
And then my profit graph went from a thing of beauty to something kind of sad, with this worrying downhill trend for a long time, until I finally realized that I was overestimating my skill level, and got my act together.
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