What is the point - exactly - of profit?

Profit is money you can't find a use for to grow your business, so you give some of it to the government in the form of tax.

Also there is a big difference between operational expenses and capital expenses like building data centers.

I think OpenAI is being very aggressive on the growth vs conservative financial management spectrum but just saying "only profit should matter" is just wrong.

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bandrami 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> What is the point - exactly - of profit?

It's what attracts capital investment, which businesses need

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nl 15 minutes ago | parent [-]

OpenAI seems to do reasonably well at attracting capital investment without profits.

As did Amazon, Google, Meta etc etc.

	▲	bandrami 10 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		OpenAI is great at attracting people who say "yeah, sure, I'll give you capital at some point in the future" who then never actually give them the capital (or at least haven't yet).