No, it's still profit. It's profit that's reinvested into growing the business. Profit is revenue - operating costs. Scaling is not an operating cost, it's an investment.
By being rich you can choose to use your money to employ others and create value. Or enjoy daiquiris on the beach. Your money, your choice. Same as they deserve to have a house as big as they want or a car as fast they want, and their cleaning person or mechanic doesn't have any ownership of them. They just work there. Even if the owner does nothing, they are the owner.
As for me, I don't see how that's relevant, but I'm doing just fine, thanks.
And plenty of people get rich by working. Not billionaire level, but retire at 40 level. Get a job in a field in strong demand (IT, construction, etc) spend little money and invest a lot. Then you deserve to not work.
yeah, anything above a certain percent I can see as theft from working class, but profit is expected to some degree. that alone doesn't paint a full picture at all.
Exactly. What really bugs me about lefty/antiwork sentiment lately is that it increasingly seems to be built upon and pushing fundamentally flawed black/white style concepts with unrealistic demands that don't understand the nuances of the world we live in.
This is antithetical to progress, it alienates many supporters and breeds politically useless extremism.
"lately"? This is foundational to the entirety of left wing thought.
The left starts at abolition of capitalism and by extension corporate profit. If you disagree with that, you're simply not left wing in any way, you would be better off in right wing or far right sites like reddit or Facebook. They're their product of your beliefs, stick to them.
Profit shouldn't exist, period. Get yourself a salary there Executive man and stop playing god. There is one singular reason to care about profit, and thats to get on the stock exchange to start living like an American Sultan. Profit should not exist, that money should go back to the workers and society, not into the coffer tombs of self proclaimed giants.
The world doesn't work the way you want it to, and it never will, simply because people are too selfish. If it ever happens, it will be because we've transcended humanity and become something else.