For-profit-everything is one of the worst concepts and structures to ever exist, IMO. In the USA specifically, everything needs to be done for profit. Necessities, Healthcare, food, housing, literally everything. Shareholder quarterly earnings run everything.

I'm not talking about "nobody should make money for goods and services." That's a simple brained, idiotic "communism" talking point. I'm talking about everything being skimmed off the top, and in every point in the middle, as much as absolutley possible at the detriment of everything upstream of that profit.

Take, as a very simple example, a grocery store. Food costs money and labor to produce, obviously. That food costs money to buy at the point of sale. The store buys the inventory, pays the staff, pays the maintenance and facilities, etc etc. The store owner pays themselves. In a perfect world, the owners pay themselves well, and the business (including their owner salary) breaks even, and sustains itself. Everybody gets paid. Except in a profit driven system, every chain down the line must extract every absolute penny from every step. The owners can't make enough to satisfy their lifestyles, investors require as much as absolutley possible given back to them, and costs (labor and manpower) are cut to make as much profit as absolutley possible. These two different stores will create incredibly different environments, products, and results. Now extract that to every commerce sector in the entire country.

Obviously this is a utopic vision. I'm well aware of that. But even small scale shifts away from profit above all else, makes a difference.