"UwU, I don't use the word "literally". I'm so smart UwU."

I'll say it again. Profit literally comes at somebody else's expense. There are ways to generate surplus value without necessarily taking from somewhere else, automation is a decent example of this. But for the most part, it's a zero-sum game.

Everything that followed was more or less a load of flowery irrelevant bullshit. Profit it's simply the difference between what it costs to produce a good or service and the amount of revenue you can generate selling it.

There are many ways to go about generating profit, but cutting expenses is the primary move for short-term profit-obsessed private corporations. Where do companies often first look to cut expenses? Wages.