" Profit is good.

Profit compells people to be:
(a) efficient - to do more with less, to consume fewer resources, to reduce and reuse waste.
(b) productive - to allow for bigger profit margins.
(c) Valuable - income, and therefore profit is only possible when we add value to our customers lives. When the value of our product or service is worth more to them than what it cost us to provide it, we profit.

And there’s no scarcity of possible profits. Every business should be profiting. When every business is profiting, that’s a lot of increased value going around. "

― Hendrith Smith