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> companies exist literally only to make money

I see another commenter has suffered downvotes for blankly replying "false" to this, so I'll try to be more substantive.

This is confusing symptom and cause. We have evolved a system where companies are defined as having profit as being their "raison d'ĂȘtre" but that's not the same as saying that's why they exist in the first place.

Companies were created to solve problems, those problems required resources and those resources required finance. Economic systems evolved to place individuals with capital in the position of being providers of such finance, who demanded profit as a return, and as such redefined the impetus of companies as existing to provide them with that return.

But it is not the reason they exist.




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