Debate: Profit-driven society

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Is the profit-driven society ideal, or should we should we move away from it?

Background and context

Nowadays, our society is greatly concerned with financial profit. However, people are also losing track with reality and forget that there are other important things in our lives, aren't they?

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Environment: Does a profit-driven society favor or damage the environment?

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Pro

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Con

• Environment and economy is not a zero-sum game. As companies and individuals are concerned about their current financial profit, they are effectively harming our environment. And contrary to economy, the environment can hardly be restored. We are exacerbating our natural resources, we are reluctant to fight global warming, and these decisions are driven by the care for profit. This clearly is unsustainable and wrong.

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Freedom: Is the drive for profit beneficial, or are we its victims?

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Pro

• Working is usually very social. While there are jobs which are lonely, most of the professions today includes great deal of social interaction, so the notion that working (for profit) reduces social life is fallacious. As a matter of fact, working requires cooperation between people, so it is one of the (if not the) most social activities ever.

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Con

• Social life is more important than money. What we are constantly forgetting is the fact that living in poverty is difficult, but living in a rush for possessions is not only exhausting, but also quite complicated. Modern people fall prey to their own dreams, ambitions and visions about higher wages while ignoring that they effectively enslave themselves as they are forgetting what the really important values are.

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Social welfare

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Pro

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See also

• Debate: Obsolete monetary system
• Debate: Capitalism vs socialism

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