This is exactly right. There are two ingredients to making money: providing value and externalizing costs. When the value provided by an entity is essentially t

This is exactly right. There are two ingredients to making money: providing value and externalizing costs. When the value provided by an entity is essentially that it doesn't externalize costs -- that it's a sink for societal costs -- it doesn't make sense to commercialize it. We fund libraries because we want them to do unprofitable things.