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Whether it's the ruthless Mexican drugs cartel, the Zetas, who use anonymous companies to launder profits while their drugs-related violence is tearing communities apart across the Americas.

Now these companies have backed new laws like the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, which turns activism into terrorism if it causes a loss of profits.

Yet they internalize and privatize the profits.

Raising wages increases demand, which increases hiring, which in turn increases wages and demand and profits, and that virtuous cycle of increasing prosperity is precisely what is missing from today's economic recovery.

In Boulder, Colorado, voters not too long ago approved a process to replace the private power company, literally the power company, the electric company Xcel, with a publicly owned utility that would forego profits and attend far more to climate change.

And our idea is to make this a professionalized pit-emptying service so that we can create a small business out of it, create profits and jobs, and the hope is that, as we are rethinking sanitation, we are extending the life of these pits so that we don't have to resort to quick solutions that don't really make sense.

We are going to have a treaty with half of the world GDP around the table with the U.S. and the European Union, so if half of the world GDP is not enough to make progress on financial transparency and minimal tax for multinational corporate profits, what does it take?

The profits that she generated, she used that to build a school, and today she educates 400 children in her community.

Pharmaceutical companies reap untold profits when women are convinced they should take a prescribed medication for all of their child-bearing lives.

Now, over the past 50 years, we as a society have come to view our companies and corporations in a very narrow, almost monomaniacal fashion with regard to how we value them, and we have put so much emphasis on profits, on short-term quarterly earnings and share prices, at the exclusion of all else.

Because if the top 10 percent of American families own 90 percent of the stocks, as they take a greater share of corporate profits, then there's less wealth left for the rest of society.

And let me just say, this profits mania that we're on is so deeply entrenched that we don't even realize how we're harming society.

Here's a small but startling example of exactly how we're doing that: this chart shows corporate giving as a percentage of profits, not revenues, over the last 30 years.

And I realized we give one percent of corporate profits to charity every year.

But I'm pleading for recognition that with increased wealth and profits has to come greater corporate social responsibility.

And when we put justness on par with profits, we'll get the most wonderful thing in all the world.

There are no commercial profits in this situation.

When Alex Pentland suggested to one company that they synchronize coffee breaks so that people would have time to talk to each other, profits went up 15 million dollars, and employee satisfaction went up 10 percent.

It's brought huge volatility in prices, so much so that in 2011, your average European car manufacturer saw a raw material price increase of 500 million Euros, wiping away half their operating profits through something they have absolutely no control over.

They even promised to reinvest 20 percent of any profits into local education programs.

Then all income stems from capital, from profits, and the very concept of wage labor becomes obsolete.

While the lack of sanitation caused many to die of disease, and others were thrown overboard for being sick, or as discipline, the captain's ensured their profits by cutting off slave's ears as proof of purchase.

Dutch ships imported spices from Asia in huge quantities to earn profits in Europe.

All were racing to bring their tea back to Europe first to maximize their profits.

And many corporate leaders welcome that as a chance to increase profits.

Will you find the strength to resist those cynical old men who want to use your blood for their own profits?

But deflation would make people want to hold onto their money, and a decrease in consumer spending would reduce business profits, leading to more unemployment and a further decrease in spending, causing the economy to keep shrinking.

They lose net new money in the future and therefore make lower profits.

These programs are run by tenant organizations and amazing staff, but all receive some amount of funding form profits from my clinic.

Now, do the people in Central America get the profits from the bananas that we consume?

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