1. In a Objective Political Economy, the subset of so-called market services and trade is the same as the subset of so-called economic services and trade.
Market acts are nevertheless a subset of economic acts. By definition, no economic transfer is a commercial act.
2. Profit makes the service of savings in capital marketable.
Like the service of labor and wages, an investment in credit and the interest it earns are the two terms of a commodity exchange. An investment in capital or quasi-capital and the profit it is likely to bring are similarly the two terms of a economic exchange.
3. The necessity of profit flows from the necessity of capital.
Capital savings are necessary for the creation and development of viable and autonomous businesses, a necessary condition for raising what is usually called "the standard of living". Whoever is opposed to the very principle of profit is only consistent if it is also opposed to the principle of interest and that of wages, since all three respond to the same necessity: to remunerate useful services.
4. Losses reduce capital and the lack of profit blocks a dynamic.
Losses instead of profits reduce capital, until it becomes more and more negative. Too low profits compromise the sufficient return on capital. The dynamic then blocked is the one that allows the enterprise to adapt its offers to the incessant transformations of techniques and outlets.
5. Enough profit is the constraint that economic objectivity forces to make the most ubiquitous in business management.
Profit to a sufficient extent, and therefore profit as well, is a vital constraint to which the enterprise is subject, regardless of anyone's psychology.
6. An enterprise does not economically own its profits.
For what remains after employee profit-sharing, the profits of an enterprise belong to the person who provides it with its capital. To see in the profit or loss of an enterprise a difference of the same nature as that between the income and expenses of a household or a non-commercial association is an error of economic analysis.