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profit motive
noun
- the desire for profit that motivates one to engage in business ventures.
profit motive
- The ability to earn profits as the reason for producers to make and sell goods .
Notes
Word History and Origins
Origin of profit motive1
Example Sentences
A refugee from Hitler’s Europe, Isaac has presided over his family-owned New York publishing house with little regard for the profit motive.
Other publications are trying to take the profit motive out of journalism.
To leave a necessary energy transition to the directives of the profit motive, just because China helped to cheapen the price of solar supply and generation, is to abandon smaller solar companies to the weirdness of a still-growing, often-speculative market.
So as long as the thing is connected to the profit motive — the profit not of society but of the individuals who own these platforms — then it doesn’t work for me and it will only get worse.
So is the fiction that anything other than the profit motive is going to govern how AI gets developed and deployed.
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