Now it is true that for many citizens under the ill-termed global economic divides, the term profit provokes plural connotations, depending very much on the class or social divide to which an entity belongs. Therefore the justification for the pursuit of profit or an appraisal of its moral basis is hinged very completely on the social dilemma facing that direct environment. The yard stick for this evaluation then becomes manifestly a function of social prejudice as well as a social construction of distinct perceptions of real life, attributed to the collective experience of a shared wealth distribution and other collective systems failure.

Interestingly, the average Asian industrialist and business man will likely not share the often negative viewpoints borne by a vast many. Indeed on the contrary the pursuit of profit may perhaps to him be perceived as a national lifeline, the term itself rooted very deeply in a fundamental perception as the underlying basis for economic transformation. A look at the Chinese, Singaporean and perhaps Malaysian economic models will buttress this point. To these fast growing economies, the pursuit of profit is plainly a good thing. Profit is then vigorously pursued as the opening for economic freedom and transformation as well as global competition. It therefore has become the foremost strategy to forestall a collapse of all individual and shared national structures, to ensure a transition of their economies from weak and dying to emerging and strong and for the rebranding of a nation’s external global image…