If you use any form of industrially produced transportation, you contribute towards someone's profit. So while it is true that the trip to Granma's is not productive of real values, it does usually consume real value, thus it makes someone (the big bad wolf?) a profit.
Production only equals profit in a capitalist universe of discourse. In an anti-capitalist discourse (e.g. marxist) profit is only an appropriation of a part of the value produced by another. That appropriation is itself not productive labour. As someone here noted there are whole professions whose sole business is shuffling around bits of this surplus to people who have claims on it. They are not at all involved in producing it. And this is even before we start talking about fictitious capital, those titles to wealth that have no connection to value as such, for example the trillions worth of US paper that is currently held as 'fiat money' by foreign governments. Once you start to equate profit with production you are deep into the typically capitalist mode of abstraction. Tahir -------------- next part -------------- All Email originating from UWC is covered by disclaimer http://www.uwc.ac.za/portal/public/portal_services/disclaimer.htm