re: Is it possible to keep a country if almost everything is subservient to the profit motive?

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True capitalism is only realized through true competition.

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Did you see the steps I laid out though?

Step 1: Business is successful

Step 2: Successful business uses profits to buy competitors

Step 3. Successful business dominates market share and creates barriers to entry (i.e. vertical integration) while continuing to use capital to buyout remaining competitors.

This the outcome of capitalism.

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You're trying to equate "profit motive' strictly to currency. Dollars and cents. Precious metals, stocks and financial worth.

But profit motives existed for millenia based strictly upon stability and security afforded to the females. Shelter, nourishment, protection. In turn, females provided hormone drive sexual gratification and offspring ... the continuation of the male genepool. It's nature, it's biblical, and it's profit motive.

Perhaps the biggest, and most basic profit motive, that exists.

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I'm not sure what you're arguing, this seems like semantics.

IMO, the OP was trying to say (clumsily and with poor examples) is that everything in the country seems financialized and "gameified" to the max amount per unit of risk possible. Instead of how, in the old days, it might have been: "Let me set up this restaurant to have as great a food as possible and serve my customers well while also making a good profit", but is instead now: "what's the fastest way to race to the bottom where I can minimize every expense to the nth degree and do just enough to keep the next marginal consumer such that all that matters is profit".

Profit is a signal that consumers are happy with your product. The entrepreneurs who only do what they want without regard to consumer preference take losses. In a heavily distorted market where there are a lot of regulations and price controls or other government manipulation, those who are most effectively able to lobby the government are most successful.

The profit motive itself is not the problem, it is more of a monetary problem in that we are really addicted as a country to cheap money and borrowing. We’re a totally service oriented, consumer spending driven economy, and that isn’t sustainable. We have to be able to start saving and investing and creating things again.

Americans get rich speculating now, not producing.

Absolutely the problem.

The shift from family owned businesses to corporate owned driven by the "stock holders".

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The economy changed because of the two house income situation and the tax for Democrat farms . It’s ruined alot

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Democrat Farms.
Perhaps you'd like to expound on the Democrat Farms tax and just how it ruined everything.