Reader takes issue with Neighb News editorial
“A business is structured to make money, to take in more than it needs from their customers. The difference is called ‘profit.’” complains FNN editor, Beth David (June 26).
More than it “needs?!” Needs for what? Communist mysticism? What is this mysterious, unidentified “need?”
“Curiouser and curiouser,” said Alice, in Wonderland.
Business needs profit or it goes bankrupt. Profits pay for advertising. Advertising potentially causes profit. A farmer who plants seeds that did not grow into wheat would starve. A farmer who plants seeds that grow into wheat has profit. He eats and lives.
Life has needs to remain alive. Capitalism is not the cause of profit. Rocks and clouds have no needs. Communism fails because it has no profit.
Stephen Grossman, Fairhaven
Editor’s Note: Mr. Grossman needs to look up the definition of “complains.”
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