re: Fundamentally Speaking, are There Any Industries That Should Be Not For Profit?

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Healthcare is expensive because of insurance companies

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Nope. Try again.

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I'm well aware that's how it works

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Clearly you are not:

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You dont understand what not for profit means. They would charge just enough to cover overhead and nothing more. Pay for labor and materials and real estate costs

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If you think labor is paid out of profit,

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INVESTORS ARE NOT LABOR YOU frickING MORON.

INVESTORS GET PAID WHATEVER IS LEFT AFTER LABOR, MATERIAL COSTS, OVERHEAD, ETC....aka profit.

THAT IS THE ENTIRE POINT OF INVESTMENT IN THE FIRST PLACE YOU RETARD

Government, and it needs to be greatly limited without lifetime appointments our career employees. Plus term limits

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In what economic context is it smart to eliminate profit motive for rivalrous and excludable goods?

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Communism.

It should be noted that R&D is driven completely by the desire for a profit. People don’t INVEST in R&D for funnsies. They do it because they want to make money. That’s called human nature and it’s the reason why socialism/Marxism/communism has never and will never work. Those systems attempt to completely deny human nature at its most basic. There’s a reason why nearly every innovation in aerospace/computers/healthcare etc.... has come from the United States or from some other capitalist country. Capitalism USES human nature to grow and progress as opposed to stifling and trying to deny its existence.

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Private military contractors are still subject to the rules of engagement per their contract.

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Sure, but perhaps you didnt know that non military members are not subject to UCMJ? Also that the liklihood of a US attorney prosecuting a foriegn crime is close to nil.

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This is not true. Profit is what the company makes after paying its people. People who work for non profits still draw a salary. Please dont do this BS. I'm asking a serious question here.

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And a serious answer is that without a profit motive, costs aren’t driven down and those savings are not passed on to the consumer. Again go to my food example. If Wall Street couldn’t make a profit in agriculture, the cost to produce our food would be drastically higher.

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My point is that defense contractors (think Academi, Blackwater, etc) are usually subject to very little criminal liability or accountability. Who would have guessed that could lead to problems?

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Blackwater lost a billion dollar contract for the actions of their contractors. Basically proving that profit motives leads to a better and less expensive product.

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If you think labor is paid out of profit, you're an idiot. Labor is paid out of revenue.

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God you're stupid