[mike4ty4]

Profit motives aren't inherently the problem; the problem is what is justified or not in pursuing them - in particular, how their pursuit comes to clash with morally-valued interests such as human and non-human suffering. E.g. in _my_ mind at least, there is 0 fundamentally wrong with, say, creating profit by solely using your own things and your own personal labor. The only thing that suggests otherwise is religious dogma. But when you start hiring others who must work or else starve, when you start to create enough waste above and beyond and so forth, that's where things start to become more complicated because you are adding the potential for harming someone or something else against its will into the mix.