Profit is an analog to energy used up by thermodynamics when work is done to decrease available energy. All living things run on chemical and ionic potentials energy profit, to maintain their out of equilibrium structures and material composition. Just as well that global oil supply is in decline since 2018, and will be declining at 8% per year by 2025. Accelerating coal and gas use as energy replacement will also become very expensive. Nation states slide down their Seneca Cliffs in flailing desperation. Everything active thing they do speeds up their collapse.