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I think most of this is irrelevant despite being interesting. OP used the common-usage definition of profit (made more money than spent) and you sought to rebu

I think most of this is irrelevant despite being interesting. OP used the common-usage definition of profit (made more money than spent) and you sought to rebut that on the basis of a different definition that seems to be of your own creation. You clearly know that OP meant profit in the usual sense based on your comments. That seems like deliberate misinterpretation to me; you are responding to an argument that you know OP wasn’t making (that this event was a net environmental / societal positive).

beckman466 5y ago
> despite being interesting. glad to hear it. i guess maybe that's what i subconsciously aim for when i write things like this; hoping for things that resonated with me to also resonate with others. i agree actually that it's willful misinterpretation of the person's comment. i think maybe the seemingly thoughtless presence/use of the word profit in this context just jumped out at me, as we're swimming in a pool of constant and endless capitalist realism. i personally appreciate it a lot when others challenge and expose our cruel and unsustainable material reality, so my comment probably comes from a desire to contribute to that critique.