Like Bentham, Mill maintains that the fundamental guide to moral action should be the maximisation of pleasure and the minimisation of pain.
和边沁一样,穆勒坚持道德行为的基本指南是使快乐最大化和痛苦最小化。
Ordinary profit-maximisation ("greed", as we are now asked to call it) would induce them to look prudent and opulent and selective in the risks they take.