Profit

Profit is the value remaining once the costs to produce a given valuable are subtracted.

The matter of how profit should be distributed is typically at the full discretion of the owner of the capital used to obtain it. This has been historically been pointed out as an overreach lacking justification and therefore necessitated the allegiance of a state in order to be sustained.

There is a wide network of agents contributing to the added value accrued in order for profit to be possible, namely the workers who put in the labor, though more extensive dependencies could also be traced across the economic system, such as domestic labor and environmental damage.