Profit and Will to Power

Smith and Marx agree that the ultimate basis of all Profit, that can be further supplemented in the Exchange process, is the Surplus-Value of a Good that is the product of the Labor that transforms it from raw material.  Now, as has been previously discussed, Smith's equating Profit-seeking with Egoism seems an arbitrary departure from the traditional concept of the former as Survival-seeking.  However, Will to Power can adequately ground Smith's thesis.  For, the transformation of raw material into a usable Good involves a discharge of strength--the imposition of a new Form on the material--with the profiting from which in an Exchange a not necessarily deliberate consequence, that Smith makes deliberate.  So, Smith's supplanting of Survival-seeking by Profit-seeking can be understood as implicitly anticipating Nietzsche's supplanting of Will to Live as Will to Power.