In 1978, John Mackey and his girlfriend used $45,000 in seed money to start "Safer Way," a natural foods store in Austin, Texas, that was supposed to offer shoppers an alternative to "evil" profit-seeking corporations.
But does that make it evil – profiting on the back of losses sustained by innocent shareholders?
It is a mark of evil when profit and greed infect the practice of medicine.
Not only that, they would also be instrumental in slowing down the progress of convergent technology, from which the supposed evil forces profit: a danger, which Eric Drexler deemed necessary to emphatically warn about.
So Chabad representatives worked with them to make it safe, denying evil its profit.
Talk of the "evils of profit" and the "progressive socialisation of the means of production" faded.
Medical insurance companies are evil entities profiting off the doling out of care to needy Americans, pricing people right out of policies while turning record profits.
National Trading Standards, the consumer protection agency, has previously accused Google – the search engine that goes by the motto "Don't be evil" – of profiting from crime by letting fraudsters pay to place their websites at the top of search results.
He accused Mr. Corzine of buying the nomination, he accused the party leaders who abandoned him for selling out, and he linked Mr. Corzine's career as the head of Goldman Sachs, the investment house, to a range of evils, including profiting from slavery in Sudan.
There is nothing inherently evil about the profit motive, but there is evidence that pot dealers, like purveyors of alcohol, get the bulk of their profit from those who use the product to excess.
