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by nate_meurer 1628 days ago
No, "something the system demands" is not a useful definition of anything. "The system" demands people have food to eat. Survival is not profit in any meaningful sense.

The parent used the term profits to distinguish free-market and state-controlled activities, and to assert that state-controlled food production has historically been just as environmentally damaging.

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Consider what I was replying to, which laid pollution at the doorstep of profits.