@Jigsaw_You @emilymbender @timnitGebru @pluralistic Great example and proof, how it doesn't take covert meetings to generate what appears like a #conspiracy and #collusion. All it takes is #selfinterest and #profitmotive, the rest just falls into place. #selforganization as found and described in #fractals / #chaostheory
#profitmotive — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #profitmotive, aggregated by home.social.
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PARTY LIKE THERE’S NO TOMORROW
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/suGyfe3f264
Greenpeace Norway activists crashed the oil lobbyists’ secret party in Arendal!. While the world is burning, the oil industry invited Norwegian politician...
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https://www.europesays.com/people/33838/ Peter Schiff Warns Zohran Mamdani’s Government Grocery Plan Will Be ‘Far Less Efficient’ — Mayor Says ‘I Look Forward To The Competition’ #Grocers #GroceryPrices #NewYorkCity #PeterSchiff #ProfitMargins #ProfitMotive #TaxpayerSubsidies #ZohranMamdani
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https://www.europesays.com/people/33700/ Peter Schiff Warns Zohran Mamdani’s Government Grocery Plan Will Be ‘Far Less Efficient’ — Mayor Says ‘I Look Forward To The Competition’ #Grocers #GroceryPrices #NewYorkCity #PeterSchiff #ProfitMargins #ProfitMotive #TaxpayerSubsidies #ZohranMamdani
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https://www.europesays.com/people/33563/ Peter Schiff Warns Zohran Mamdani’s Government Grocery Plan Will Be ‘Far Less Efficient’ — Mayor Says ‘I Look Forward To The Competition’ #Grocers #GroceryPrices #NewYorkCity #PeterSchiff #ProfitMargins #ProfitMotive #TaxpayerSubsidies #ZohranMamdani
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"But supply shortages tell only half the story. In some countries, such as the UK, housing analysts note that the shortage of affordable homes is made far worse by private developers prioritising high-end projects over affordable housing."
"urban land prices, limited housing finance and weak incentives for affordable housing push developers toward luxury projects instead of affordable ones"
Soaring rents and a four-hour commute: the misery of the Lagos housing crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/apr/15/lagos-rent-crisis-wages-housing-growth?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other -
Challenging Business Myths: Insights from a University Professor
March 24, 2026 Do you ever hear a statement that sounds false from the start? Sometimes, you may just lack information to support it. Or perhaps the speaker isn't qualified to make that claim. But this wasn't the case with the university business professor, who began by declaring he would challenge some common shibboleths—widely held but mistaken beliefs. He began by sharing how he always asks his students what motivates them in business, and the answer is always profit: business exists […]https://andrasthehun.ca/2026/03/24/challenging-business-myths-insights-from-a-university-professor/
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:awesome: ✨ 💫 #newNewEconomy New business #strategy: get into an argument with Elon Musk. Over who is the bigger idiot 😂. Piss him off as much as you can… Get him to the point where he’s willing to buy off your company, maybe even for a much higher value… ??? 🤔💸 … profit! 😂 Welcome to the post-factually investment world! 😂 :awesome: ✨ 💫
#BusinessStrategy #FCKElonMusk #InvestmentHumor #ProfitMotive
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#UK needs #media free of #US control:
#Comcast’s move for #ITV focuses minds
Proposed combination of #Sky & ITV’s #broadcasting would leave #Channel4 relative commercial minnow in TV & digital ad sales, reigniting talk of need to revisit a form of tie-up with #BBC for long-term survival
However, it's the potential ramifications on future of #news provision that are the most immediate alarm in the #TV industry
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Hype for the Future 25I: Request for Comments from “Against Capitalism”
While capitalism is easily comparable to—and perhaps worse than—the human slavery system, capitalism also perpetuates the numerous inequities of an unethical social hierarchy. In an ideal economic system, carbon emissions would be as close to zero as humanly and reasonably possible; however, the current economy allows the people who hoard and exploit resources to absorb nearly all the wealth within the system and providing for selfishness. Unfortunately, since modern-day career interests […] -
'They delayed, they denied’:
How health #insurance industry endemically endangers many critical #California patients
https://calmatters.org/health/2025/10/health-insurance-error-denial-ghost-network/
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For those considering #SanFrancisco's Upzoning Plan (aka #FamilyZoningPlan) , predicated on letting for profit developers build higher and denser, we have some data:
"London boroughs with the greatest number of these rental property developments, rents have increased by 48% to 52% since 2015, exceeding the city-wide average. "
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Trump moves to end NASA missions measuring carbon dioxide and plant health
The Trump administration wants to end two NASA missions that monitor a potent greenhouse gas and plant health. The move would potentially shut off an important source of data for scientists, policymakers and farmers.
#Trump #SilencingData #NASA #BigOil #ProfitMotive #DyingPlanet #Monitoring #GHG #Ecocide
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"Humanity" Didn’t Cause the Climate Crisis, Capitalism Did
https://substack.com/inbox/post/169784090
Enough of this guilt-ridden nonsense that blames "humanity" for the climate crisis… As if the Indigenous communities who lived in balance with the land for millennia bear the same guilt as ExxonMobil’s board of directors…
#BigOil #GuiltCampaign #Deflection #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #CrimesAgainstHumanity #ProfitMotive #DeflectionNarrative #ClimateJustice #ClimateAction
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CW: #political
Bill Mayer, (in Hi-Fructose Magazine)
I think this is an accurate depiction of our (USA) national identity right now, at least the one that's on the front page. We have a sort of cold, heartless (greedy) pig in the lead, flanked by blank-eyed, soulless, terrifying dogs. There's charm on it, but, it's this.
This must have been intended to be political? I don't know what context the artist had in mind. I guess it's been like this for a while though
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An Entire Country Has to Be Evacuated Because of Climate Change
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/entire-country-evacuated-because-climate-211026350.html
Going Under
Tuvalu, a small island nation in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is planning to evacuate all of its over 11,000 inhabitants due to rising sea levels caused by climate change.
#Tuvalu #Evacuation #ClimateCrisis #ClimateInaction #ProfitMotive #CountryDestroyed
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UN’s Top Court Rules That ‘Clean, Healthy’ Environment Is a Human Right
https://www.ecowatch.com/un-healthy-environment-human-right-icj.html
In a landmark finding, the UN’s top court stated that a “clean, healthy and sustainable environment” is a human right.
#HumanRights #PollutionViolence #Health #HealthyEnvironment #Environment #Pollution #Violence #ProfitMotive #QualityOfLife #SlowGenocide #Capitalism #UN #Court
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Unilever is blocking Ben & Jerry’s fight for justice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZehvjKQK8XY
Ben & Jerry’s is the first major American brand to publicly condemn Israeli apartheid against Palestinians, leading to conflicts with its parent company, Unilever.
While Ben & Jerry’s strives to uphold its social mission, Unilever stands in its way.
#boycott #benandjerry #unilever #GenocideEnabler #Criticism #Israel #Genocide #Civilians #Children #BDS #Infighting #DroppingBrand #PalestinianRights #ProfitMotive
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More than 60 scientists issue dire warning that the Earth is careening toward catastrophe: 'Things are all moving in the wrong direction'
https://www.yahoo.com/news/more-60-scientists-issue-dire-101547406.html
"We're seeing some unprecedented changes, and we're also seeing the heating of the Earth and sea-level rise accelerating as well.“
#ClimateCatastrophe #Consequences #Scientists #Warning #Carbon #Pollution #GHG #Unchecked #Accelerating #Threshold #ProfitMotive #Life #Suffering #Society #Poor #Change #ActNow #DirectAction
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Elderly and disabled people told Congress that cutting Medicaid would kill people and in response they were zip tied and arrested in their wheelchairs.
#USA #DeathPolicies #BillionaireTaxCuts #Capitalism #SocialMurder #Politicians #SanitizedMurder #ProfitMotive #Bribery #Corruption #Murder #USGovernment #Politics #Death #DeathCult #ChristoFascism
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During the public debate surrounding the slaying of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson, many Very Serious People TM insisted that it was hyperbolic to say United Health and medical insurance companies like it, were themselves in the business of murdering Americans for profit. While obviously their denials were disingenuous on a structural level in a society where providing (or not providing) access to life-saving medical care is one of the most profitable industries in the US economy, but as it turns out they were flat out wrong in a literal sense too. How do we know? Because recent investigations into UnitedHealth management practices show the company was straight up bribing nursing homes to deny their customers hospital care and pressure elderly residents to sign "do not resuscitate" orders; even if they wanted to use the coverage they paid for to you know, not die.
Revealed: UnitedHealth secretly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers
"The secret bonuses were just one of many maneuvers UnitedHealth devised to track and cut expenses in its nursing home initiative.
Internal emails show, for example, that UnitedHealth supervisors gave their teams “budgets” showing how many hospital admissions they had “left” to use up on nursing home patients.
The company also monitored nursing homes that had smaller numbers of patients with “do not resuscitate” – or DNR – and “do not intubate” orders in their files. Without such orders, patients are in line for certain life-saving treatments that might lead to costly hospital stays.
Two current and three former UnitedHealth nurse practitioners told the Guardian that UnitedHealth managers pressed nurse practitioners to persuade Medicare Advantage members to change their “code status” to DNR even when patients had clearly expressed a desire that all available treatments be used to keep them alive."
So, there's a term for a situation when you just let someone in a medical emergency die because its more profitable for your company, and that term is "homicidal negligence." Which itself, is a fancy way of describing what any normal person would call murder. If you or I were caught doing this kinda shit at our (hypothetical, I assure you) Airbnb rental property, we'd be going to jail for a long fucking time. Because UnitedHealth is a giant corporation, worth hundreds of billions of dollars, and has enough lobbyists to ensure no US Senator ever dines alone again however, it's just "efficient business operations" in the eyes of many free market fundamentalists and investor class sociopaths. Folks, they literally gamified a plot to enlist nursing homes to murder our grandparents for money; this isn't a wayward comment on an earnings call, these unhinged mutherfuckers had bonus tiers for nursing homes that kept hospital visits low at any cost. In a just world, folks should absolutely go to fucking prison for this homicidal bullshit, but we do not live in a just world and since our entire society is built to service capitalist extraction and the rich people who do it, I'm not gonna hold my breath while I wait for justice.
What I will say however is bougie maggot bootlickers can kiss my puckered asshole, because you can't stop reality from being real, or folks getting killed for profit by corporations, from calling that what it is: murder. The fact is that no company in the history of capitalist society ever created any wealth; they merely extract it from our shared environment and labor class folks like you and I. If a company like UnitedHealth figures out that letting your grandma die is good for their share prices, that's exactly what they're going to do; don't let disingenuous muppets who benefit from this system tell you it's too complicated for you to understand, and this practice isn't precisely what you think it is. These folks have made killing us for money at various speeds, a profitable industry; the least they could do is stop pissing in our faces when we point out that CEOs and investors have more bodies on themselves than you'll find in a pauper's cemetery.
#Capitalism #Murder #UnitedHealth #HomicidalNegligence #ClassWar #ProfitMotive #Corporations #Oligarchy #NursingHomes #Flak #Seniors #USNews #Propaganda #ForProfitHealthcare
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FREE TO HARM THEE
Industry-Backed Legislation Would Bar the Use of Science Behind Hundreds of Environmental Protectionshttps://www.propublica.org/article/legislation-targets-epa-science-toxic-chemicals
Two bills in Congress would prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from using hundreds of chemical assessments completed by its IRIS program in environmental regulations or enforcement.
#ProfitMotive #CorporateOligarchy #HealthCrisis #USA #EPA #NoProtection #People #Environment #Toxicity #Bribery #Ecocide #Death
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Mass protests against New Zealand's effort to weaken Māori rights — and hurt the planet
Mass protests were held in New Zealand this week over an effort to weaken the rights of the Maori, who often serve as environmental stewards.
“This is about the protection of all that we hold dear.”
#Māori #Indigenous #Rights #Extractivism #FarRight #NewZealand #ProfitMotive #LandDefenders
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think about the shareholders!
#sHell #ClimateDestruction #ProfitMotive #GlobalAssault #Shareholders #ManMadeDisasters #RecordProfits #Impunity #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Spain #Valencia #Flooding
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@damon Thank you for your reaffirmation of my choice. Yes, placing as much distance between the Corporatocracy & Social Media is one of my ongoing concerns. Your citation of "some people" not finding #ElectronicFrontierFoundation #eff.org to be a reliable source doesn't persuade me from my year's long, monthly contributions to them, because I still do find them to be more than reliable, and refreshingly objective. Not-so much those with a purely #profitmotive that furthers #ToxicCapitalism
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COMMODIFY
To make something into a commodity, frequently at the expense of its intrinsic value#Capitalism #Commodification #Sacrament #Life #DeathCult #Ecocide #ClimateCrisis #ProfitMotive
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Australian executives’ pay jumped in the last year – so did the gulf between CEOs and the average worker | Surely you’re not surprised? #profitmotive #shareholderresponsibility https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/datablog/article/2024/aug/31/australian-executives-pay-jumped-in-the-last-year-so-did-the-gulf-between-ceos-and-the-average-worker?CMP=share_btn_url
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1: "see that guy over there?"
2. "yeah, what's up with him?"
1: "he wants to make money!"
2: 😠😡😠😡😡😡🤬🤬
tfw #profitMotive
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Internet Archive Forced to Remove 500,000 books Due to Copyright Lawsuit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uPQeOGi4vk
this is what's behind it...
#InternetArchive #Education #Copyright #LegalIssues #BannedBooks #Fascism #InformationAccess #RestrictingInformation #GlobalArchive #ClassWar #Lawfare #ProfitMotive #Control
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The problems were created via #ProfitMotive