Profit isn't the only signal. Feeling great about helping people. Changing people's lives. Helping your country. Putting people in a position to succeed. To enjoy their lives. People get to pick their own motivations. If they are fortunate, they will reach those goals.
That's the beauty of capitalism. People get to choose the reward that motivates them.
Entrepreneurs can choose to make as much money as possible. Or not. They can choose to make enough money to focus on using their most valuable asset, their time, to not have to work at all. They can choose to make money to help people.
But. Every entrepreneur that wants to reach their goals needs people. People to work for them, buy from them, sell to them. Even the person in the basement with nothing but AI, needs to connect to humans to reach their personal goals.
Capitalism works. But not for everyone.
Where Capitalism fails people, Capitalism isn't the problem. It's the people that put profits above all else that are the problem.
If you put your personal net worth or cash flow above all else, you may make insane amounts of money, but you will suffer the greatest indignity. You will be hated. Your time will not be your own. You will never experience the joy that comes from helping others.
No one is born knowing where their life will take them. We get to do our best, in our circumstances, to try to enjoy our lives.
Capitalism allows us to try to get there. Capitalism allows people who have achieved those goals to help others. Capitalism allows us to choose our own personal path.
Unfortunately, we don't all get there. But we get to try to choose the path we want.
The signal is personal choice. Not profit.