{"id":257116,"date":"2025-02-26T10:30:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T10:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&#038;p=257116"},"modified":"2025-02-25T09:37:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T09:37:00","slug":"capitals-insatiable-thirst-for-profit","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/capitals-insatiable-thirst-for-profit\/","title":{"rendered":"Capital\u2019s insatiable thirst for profit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our lives are dominated by the fundamental aim of the capitalist system of production \u2013 profit for the owners. <\/p>\n<p>A once-progressive system, it has promoted such a huge increase in industrial and agricultural productivity that every person in the world could now have access to all the goods and services needed for a reasonable life.<\/p>\n<p>But a reasonable life for all is denied because the system is driven by the profit motive. If there is no prospect of a profit, there will be no production.<\/p>\n<p>We would be stupid to allow this to continue. But continue it will, until the world\u2019s workers decide to end capital\u2019s domination by turning production for profit into production for use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-257116","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/257116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}