In capitalism, most businesses have a profit motive. describe at least one reason that businesses with a profit motive may be for society and at least one reason that they may be harmful for society. then, explain whether you think profit motive is a good thing or a bad thing for society

Even though that particular business have the motive of increasing profit there would be a lot of benefits that the society will get such as...
Since most of the business are working for profit in the market this create competition among each other this results to a lower price in markets therfore the society can afford to  buy things.

A bad side of such business could be  the monopoly power, if there is no company that produces similar good or service they tend to abuse the consumers by increasing the price of the goods and services they provide as there are no other firms that provide similar goods or services.

The answer is true a pertinent question is an appropriate question.

Dwould be the correct answer to this problem