Comment by TheDong

A library will not profit from its members being able to read books for free, but society as a whole will profit.

Demanding each individual component of society be profitable leads to the overall detriment of the whole. It leads to hospitals only treating the rich and only for money, it leads to no-one producing art, it leads to homeless shelters not existing. It leads to society becoming an inhumane machine to produce and consume money, and nothing more.

Humans are more important than money, society is more important than money.