Yeah. Whenever I hear anyone who isn't talking specifically about math or engineering say "X is a solved problem," it tends to seem more like they actually mean

Yeah. Whenever I hear anyone who isn't talking specifically about math or engineering say "X is a solved problem," it tends to seem more like they actually mean "X is an understood problem," which has quite the opposite meaning. If you say "The solution to the problem of profitability is for the company in question to sell goods/services for more than the cost of obtaining them," you're begging the question. All you've done is stated the problem again in different terms and called it the solution. True solutions let us cause the rectification of the problem. If I could literally guarantee that I'd be able to turn a profit before I even knew the nature of the company I was going to start, then I could claim the problem was solved.