Profits Are For Everyone - Barry Crickmer - Nations Business.  

The most amazing thing about profit is that it exists at all. Consider a typical business: Suppliers exchange their goods, and workers exchange their labor for the companies money; consumers exchange their money for the company’s products. These exchanges are voluntary.  In every case, both parties to the exchange expect to benefit from it. If there were no mutual benefit, there would be no exchange. The basic difference between the primary economic principles of capitalism and socialism does not mean that under socialism profit is no longer an economic category. As long as commodity-money relations still operate, and they do under socialism, profit is the factor. Lenin insisted that state owned enterprise operate without loss, and that they bring a profit. An economics commentator once put it this way:  "It is not the existence of profit, but rather it is the generation and disposition that differentiate the two systems." 

I will add this. Since creation mankind has remained a mixture of good and bad. No doubt this is a reason why no one has found a better way of developing strong communities than our capitalist system. However, what really provides value and joy to this system is faith, family, and a prosperous small business community. These three community legs have proven conclusively that they will give us our freedom, our wealth, and our happiness, for today and tomorrow.