Comment Re:The Pirate Bay (Score 1) 302
There very much is net profit, and it can be measured, by subtracting depreciation from the GDP. To put it in simple terms, if an economy builds 500,000 cars in a year, and only 200,000 cars are removed from circulation, than the economy is richer by 300,000 cars.
And whoever exchanged money for those 300,000 extra cars will be have less money, and then there is the argument about perceived value vs real value.
Or, maybe one day our capitallist system will have produce so much net profit that we will all be rich, and nobody will have work ever again !