Imagine all your favorite products. They are made in profit-based organizations such as this one. Love it, or oppose it at your own risk and with no misunderstandings about your program of destruction by selflessness.
Your message, esp. the first 2/3s, is precisely the one I was hoping to hear. Asking the right questions is the most valuable ability a philosopher can have. You can really see this in observing the directions (dead ends) analytic philosophy is going. How is your quest as a philosopher going, Luke? What have you been thinking about?
This isn't about being relatively materialistic: if you like toothpaste, refrigerators, t-shirts, music recordings, and wearing clothes that you didn't make, then welcome to the world of gratitude to profit-chasers.
Some producers of goods and services got sucked into our artificial housing bubble, obviously such as the architectural and building industries, but part of why I wanted to post this is to acknowledge the makers of literally millions of goods and services, which as a whole certainly make our lives more pleasant and convenient, which we would want for any human being, especially with all the improved hygiene and health and broadened horizons of a wealthy society - which is one that allows the profit motive to do its thing (while respecting everybody's rights, just as everyone in a lawful society has to do).
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