Profit isn't about selling something at a price that makes it worth your while to provide, it's about expecting to get significantly more for it than it's worth your while to provide it for. It's about an unfair exchange where you charge significantly more resources than you have invested in resources. Of course, in order to get away with it for long, you have to be sneaky and manipulative and convince people that it's their only option so that they don't go elsewhere to some non-profit type and do a more equal exchange of value.
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Date: 2009-12-04 12:01 am (UTC)Profit isn't about selling something at a price that makes it worth your while to provide, it's about expecting to get significantly more for it than it's worth your while to provide it for. It's about an unfair exchange where you charge significantly more resources than you have invested in resources. Of course, in order to get away with it for long, you have to be sneaky and manipulative and convince people that it's their only option so that they don't go elsewhere to some non-profit type and do a more equal exchange of value.