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Commerce Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Businesses should do anything they can to make a profit. Use specific reasons and examples to support your position. Sample: Should businesses do anything they can to make a profit? The ultimate最终的，最高的 goal of every business is to make a profit. Businesses that don’t turn a profit go under and dissolve溶解，解散, and increasing competition on national and international markets makes it more and more difficult for companies to succeed or simply stay alive. Regardless, as members of society companies are subject to laws and regulations规则，规章 that they must abide by, and the people who run businesses have a personal responsibility to both their employees and the community in which they do business. It is true that stiff competition will force companies to go to extreme极端的 measures to secure profits, but these must not include illegal means. In the recent past, the enormous巨大的，庞大的 sums of money involved in contemporary当代的 economics have led CEOs and managers of businesses to bend the rules of the trade. For example, companies have deliberately故意地，有意识地 ignored government standards for environmental pollution limits or tried to bribe government officials to allow them to bypass设旁路；迂回 these regulations. Such illegal违法的，不合规定的 means might be possible because of the sometimes tremendous极大的，巨大的 social and political influences of businesses, but they are immoral不道德的，邪恶的, and the government should make a point of punishing violators违反者，亵渎者. Furthermore, the managers of companies must be aware that employees and their families depend on jobs for financial金融的，财政的 security. For many businesses cutting jobs or moving jobs to another country is a way to further increase profits. However, the same jobs that are being cut or moved often support entire communities. If, for example, a company closed down an entire manufacturing plant of 5,000 or 10,000 jobs in order to make even greater profits, then a community of the si