You are writing about commercial profit and loss, which is potentially infinite in duration, and reducible down to one integer. I am writing about a human bein

You are writing about commercial profit and loss, which is potentially infinite in duration, and reducible down to one integer. I am writing about a human being experiencing a finite life, expansively. Must these two domains be mutually exclusive, or conflicting? If business only existed for profit, they might be, but is that the only reason businesses exist?