Profit logic is contingent and historical, not natural human nature.

Evidence

What is irrational according to the logic of needs is entirely rational according to the logic of profits. In the society we live in, the latter prevails over the former. However, nothing is natural or particularly human about the logic of profits. This is not an eternal fact to be passively recorded and accepted; instead, we’re talking about a contingent phenomenon that has its own origin and history. Its origin and history need to be interrogated. Understanding them holds emancipatory value. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 57

What is irrational according to the logic of needs is entirely rational according to the logic of profits. In the society we live in, the latter prevails over the former. However, nothing is natural or particularly human about the logic of profits. This is not an eternal fact to be passively recorded and accepted; instead, we’re talking about a contingent phenomenon that has its own origin and history. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 57

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: ‘the sandwich test’ — why hunger coexists with waste because need is subordinate to profit; a concrete frame for a popular economics essay.
• APHORISMS: A usable life-perspective: what looks naturally rational is actually a recent, revisable social choice.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 57; Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 57
• XREF: connects to: Capitalism’s apparent naturalness is a constructed hoax, not an inevitability. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 26