The mantra of "profit" [1] and "capitalism" has become suffused with the same absolutism that has tainted so many religions, to their eventual detriment. While

The mantra of "profit" [1] and "capitalism" has become suffused with the same absolutism that has tainted so many religions, to their eventual detriment. While expounding upon the virtue of the individual, it is simultaneously devaluing and grinding down an endless number of them. It is really about the "select" individual. If you are not selected, you do not matter. And participation is no guarantee of selection. Rather than the ostensible goal, look at what the proponent is willing to do to achieve it. Judge accordingly. -- [1] also present, in somewhat different disguise, in many formally "not-for-profit" endeavors