• Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      23 hours ago

      That’s mutual aid.

      Profit is more like parasitism: it will use up as much of it as it can regardless of how it affects the supply.

      • Yondoza@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        8 hours ago

        Technically that is profit maximizing, where as profit is just surplus value created. Nothing wrong with profit, profit maximizing at the expense of all else is a recipe for civilization collapse.

        In our tree mushroom example, if both organisms grow faster by sharing nutrients than by hoarding, they have both made a profit.