For A World Without Profit

In our nation, finance has a hold on almost every single part of our lives – from the day we’re born, until we take our last breath. Capitalism and the quest for larger profits have taken hold of our healthcare, our education, our homes, our communication, and even our government. Today, most babies are born in for-profit hospitals, and their medical claims are paid by for-profit insurance. As children grow, many go to for-profit charter schools or private schools, and our public education system continues to crumble. Young adults are forced to deal with for-profit lenders to go to college at for-profit universities, and everything from their backpack to their first home will generate a profit for someone on Wall Street.
Throughout our lives, we are forced into paying huge monopolies for access to phones and internet and communication, and all that data is turned over to for-profit corporations who spy on us for our government. Even the vast majority of our elected leaders answer first to corporate lobbyists, and second to the American people. Corporate power has a stranglehold on the entire American existence, and it has turned our entire lives into a profit-making venture.

So far, so good - and similar the world over in the current state of capitalism. Most of us will recognise ourselves in the scenes portrayed above and most reading this will feel renewed indignation having spoken out against it for longer than we care to remember.
However, now follows:
 
There is a place for profit in our world, and a reason for corporations, but we must shift the power back to actual people. Without us, corporations would have no production to make their goods, and no customers from which to make a profit. Business should be here to serve American needs, not control us and commercialize everything that we do. We must regain our power by declaring that corporations are not people and money is not speech. Only then can we stop the cycle of putting profit before people.

Absolutely, 'without us corporations would have no production to make their goods' but socialist requirements go much further than putting people before profits. With the abolition of the wages system and the abolition of money there will be no owners of corporations, no huge monopolies, no pecuniary advantage, no minority control over the vast majority, no for-profit healthcare, after death care, insurance or education - no profit and no debt either. Socialism is the only solution.
JS

Taken from here