profit vs comparative profit

this is one I have thought about a lot and the concept seems obvious in my head, but it is hard to put into words, however, I still want to put my thought process out there

capitalism - profit

use capital to make - sell for more than cost - live, reinvest and make more

hypercapitalism - comparative profit

only win in comparison to others - no end point - just more concentration of wealth

stock market price not based on profit or the expectation of profit, because the expectation of profit is already in the value, so the way for the stock price to go up sufficently is to increase the expectation of profit, simply meeting the expectation does not lead to a sufficient increase

a morality decision or being okay with making less can be not simply a decision to make less but a decision to fail - because it is not about the profit made but the profit made relative to other businesses, or even the expectation of profit made relative to the expectation of profit made by others, and then to the next point, the relative increase in the expectation of profit over what is already in the stock price

profit then needs to pay off on those expectations - which then increases prices and legitimizes those price increases because the morality of keeping the system going which is this system of winning that comparative profit race and that expectation for comparative profit race

instead of capitalism based on old idea of profit, is it really comparative profit that decided who is in the market and who is not?

survival vs surplus

is it really the difference between when life or property is more about survival or surplus?

back in the days of hunter-gatherers and similar such situations where living was/is more about survival or subsistence

or situations where there is so much more than needed for survival or subsistence and there is a surplus, and the question really becomes, who gets the surplus? And in recent memoryit seems not so much about what an item should cost, how much an item costs to make, what a reasonable cost would be, but how much of the surplus a company can collect.

the morality of taking

and then what I hear is axe the tax for the millionth time and wondering why if the oligarchs are just going to take the surplus anyways, why won't I want that money to go towards having a functioning society instead of making the rich richer? they have been yelling axe the tax (or similar things) since Reagan and we have unbalanced ourselves towards increasing greater concentration of wealth and oligarchs

and a morality that says we need the market to survive and grow so the market is morality and the market than makes morality so as much equality gets yelled about and every other social cause, morality becomes based on making money and more money becomes it's own morality

what I learned is law school is that law is really based on the protection of property and to me the concept of property infused too much of what we are and the lives we live and my mind wants to figure out how the balance the excesses of it