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George Pyle: Whether its a vape pen or an oil refinery, for-profit can mean pro-poison

Understand what a vape pen is for. It exists to infuse a user’s lungs with nicotine, a highly addictive chemical. That is its one and only purpose.

Understand what a vape pen manufacturer is for. It exists to infuse its own bank account with the money of its customers. That is its one and only purpose.

And it is the same purpose of the vast majority of for-profit operations. You can tell because they are called, quite openly and without shame, for-profit. Not for-product or for-pleasure or for-service or for-customer or for-dinner. For-profit.

Rocky Mountain Power does not exist to generate electricity, nor the HollyFrontier refinery to distill gasoline, nor Merit Medical to make the machines that go “Ping!