GOOD AND PROFIT DO NOT MEAN THE SAME IN ANY LANGUAGE

GOOD AND PROFIT DO NOT MEAN THE SAME IN ANY LANGUAGE

Strange that we live in a world where recent decades have seen more
and more equation of "good" with "profit" as if the two words mean
exactly the same. If there is no profit, it cannot be good. If there
is profit it must be of some good. Profit and good in terms of being
an increasingly absolute value have become regarded as more and more
synonymous (meaning the same).

This means that if something is losing money, or not making profits,
it tends to be regarded as something that ought, morally, to be given
up, in favor of what does make money, and is profitable. So we regard
the closing down of activities, enterprises, that are money losers,
not money makers, as something more and more natural. It something
that is less and less put into question. Twenty five years ago more
people would have questioned the closure, cessation, of non profitable
activities or enterprises. Today few would do so, and even those
without much argument. It is simply more taken for granted that that
is the "right" thing to do.

Even western psychology has jumped onto that growing bandwagon
supporting a mentality that closes down, gives up, ceases to pursue,
activities and interests that would lose money, or fail to make a
profit on investment of means to their pursuit. Those means are more
extensive than simply money. Money is a necessary means in a monetary
economy, but it is never a sufficient means in and of itself. We are
talking about all the means necessary to the pursuit of an activity or
enterprise.

This has proven to be a very dangerous way of thinking, and is a
destructive trend in regard to the future of humanity. Much that is
good, in more absolute terms, is not profitable. It does not make
money, even if it might be much needed by human lives. We must begin
to come to terms with this and we must begin to change our thinking on
this, realizing that profit is not the same as good.

This means that ways must be established that support what is good, in
terms of additional enterprises and activities, which do not turn a
profit. We must begin to consider how to do what is good, for now and
for the future, outside of the dangerously destructive constraint of
"for profit". We cannot allow "for profit" to become the absolute
value. The absolute value must be reasserted as being what is good for
people, now and for the future. Often what is profitable is contrary
to that good, and in conflict with good.

"Profit" and "good" are not the same meaning, in any language, and we
must uphold that difference, not allowing erosion of that difference.
We are suffering from that erosion of difference and we must blame
those leaders who failed to make that difference part of their
leadership. A fundamental part of their leadership. Good leaders
understand the difference between "good" and "profit" and lead towards
the "good" even when it is not profitable. We must support those
leaders and we must remove leaders from power who do not understand,
or do not choose to uphold that basic and vital difference.

The future of humanity depends on that revolution in politics, in
economics, in society.

We cannot wait any longer, because as the previous century of
dissipation and destruction has consistently shown, the good is under
siege and imperiled, and we must save what is good from those who
would destroy the good, in favor of a world based solely on profit. We
cannot allow that evil to prevail, or humanity will be utterly
destroyed.

Robert Morpheal

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