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cord-033452-y5tavcjb	Cohen, Jennifer	COVID-19 Capitalism: The Profit Motive versus Public Health	2020-09-20		.txt	text/plain	1390	82	48	Furthermore, because profit-seeking is economically rational in capitalism, capitalist imperatives may be incompatible with public health. Another reason to look closely at markets is the profit motive, a supply-side behavioral force, which provides a different rationale for deindividualizing responsibility for health in capitalist economies. I argue that profit-motivated behaviors keep individuals from accessing necessities and undermine public health and health systems as demonstrated during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, focusing on individual 'rule-breakers' elides social and economic context (Roy, 2017)-capitalism incentivizes profit-seeking at significant cost to public health. Antisocial entrepreneurialism occurs at all levels: from a student charging classmates for single-squirts of hand-sanitizer (Harvey, 2020) , to people stockpiling and unapologetically reselling cleaning wipes on Craigslist and Facebook marketplace (Tiffany, 2020) , to drug companies jacking up prices for medications like insulin (Thomas, 2019) . In effect, like (in)ability-to-pay on the demand side, the profit motive is a supply-side force that can render individuals incapable of responsibility for their health (Levy, 2019) .	./cache/cord-033452-y5tavcjb.txt	./txt/cord-033452-y5tavcjb.txt