Wow. Nobody has mentioned that this argument is a strawman yet? It is not profit itself that is usually attacked; rather, it is the exploitation of the poor (w

Wow. Nobody has mentioned that this argument is a strawman yet? It is not profit itself that is usually attacked; rather, it is the exploitation of the poor (whether in terms of the environment or labor) in the name of profit. The first example I can think of is the oil companies in Nigeria who have left environmental disaster because it was more profitable to pay off the right people. We can go round and round about sweatshops, but the immorality is the disconnect between those making the money and those supplying the labor. It is the conditions that trapped workers in a factory while it burned down that is immoral. I don't remember people talking about making things poor people want at a profit as immoral, save malt liquor and pay day loans. (I should mention that it is the exploitation of the situation of the poor that is the problem, not the product itself. It's the poor person paying a quarter of the wages to keep current on the loan while the principal isn't touched that is the problem -- the cycle rather than the profit itself.)