The desire to make everything profitable is a negative by-product of lies and truths that we are in debt as a nation, but not always knowing why or how, in reality. Why the general public believe that we just aren't making enough money to afford to cover all of the government funded departments, projects, programs, task forces, etc. to keep us going, as so 'it must be that we aren't making enough money to cover everything.' So you either bolster the profit making, reduce or cut funding or balance the budget.

But, we as a nation have believed for so long that capitalism as the backbone of our nation, is our best bet of growing and/or maintaining what we have. And then add in hypercapitalism, and you have a recipe for what the U.S. is facing (in a lot of ways,) right now.