• And usually the opposite of something sold for profit is free. I mean, personally I’ve never heard of something sold for non-profit.

      The opposite of “nothing a human needs should be sold for profit” would be “everything a person needs to survive should be free.”

      • gxgx55@lemmy.world
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        This is just like how people confuse the words “profit” and “revenue”. Sold for no revenue would be for free, sold for no profit doesn’t mean free at all.

        • This implies the comment I replied to was joking. So what’s the punchline? Cuz it reads more like they didn’t understand what I said initially than being a joke.

          Or being highly pendantic about the verbiage that a reasonable person would have understood through context.

      • Johanno@lemmynsfw.com
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        No profit means that if I buy the food from the Farmer for 1€ and add all my costs of transportation and storage and maintenance of my business then it will cost 3€ however because I want to profit of my work I will add a few € to the price. Now it costs 8€.

        So I could sell for 3€ and still wouldn’t lose money. That would be non-profit.