Profit is defined as revenue beyond costs. Many say that profit is "bad." Yet saving on the individual level is income above consumption - essentially the same things. Why should individual saving be good while profit be bad?
Because those many want the money to go to them, not to the businesses.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_thrift
Who says that profit is bad?