[try_the_bass]

> Your interest as the owner is to maximize that profit and minimize expenses, and our interest as workers is to maximize our wage and minimize your profit.

Is it? I know a handful of small business owners, and generally their interest is running their business well and keeping their customers happy. Sure, they want to be profitable, but profit isn't their primary motivator.

Ditto on the worker side.

Your outlook on this is wildly cynical

[ever1337]

They may have a moral sentiment and so too do employees - but the market is the ultimate condition for any moral sentiment to survive. You have no company, you no longer 'satisfy' customers. I am not referring to a moral idea, but a cold reality of business.

[try_the_bass]

... What? I can't follow what you're trying to say here. It sounds like you're contradicting what I was replying to?

[ever1337]

It's not that profit is one 'motivator' among others, it is the sole and ultimate condition for the survival of a business.