>Reading between the lines, this highlights an inherent bias in the majority of American companies to provide service to extract value as opposed to providing service for public benefit.
American businesses do the same thing businesses do anywhere: try to generate more valuable products and services than they consume. It really is as simple as that. No value is "extracted" when you sell bread for more than it cost to buy flour, yeast, water, labour, and space to work. The idea that it is "extractive" screams to me of the lump of labour/labour theory of value idea, which is not just wrong but incoherent. Maybe that is not what you meant, but it is common for communists to claim that "all profit is extracted from workers' labour" and similar silly rubbish.
You're glossing over the nuance. Selling bread for a profit is of course what any bread business will try to do. But only some bread businesses would be willing to increase profits by switching to cheaper ingredients, flimsier packaging, rushing production and lowering the quality of the bread.
This isn't about communism vs. capitalism. It's about Airbus culture vs. Boeing culture.
American businesses do the same thing businesses do anywhere: try to generate more valuable products and services than they consume. It really is as simple as that. No value is "extracted" when you sell bread for more than it cost to buy flour, yeast, water, labour, and space to work. The idea that it is "extractive" screams to me of the lump of labour/labour theory of value idea, which is not just wrong but incoherent. Maybe that is not what you meant, but it is common for communists to claim that "all profit is extracted from workers' labour" and similar silly rubbish.