Evaluating a Simplistic Profit Strategy
A business manager claims, 'To maximize our profit, we should simply produce and sell as many units as we can, because more sales always mean more profit.' Based on the method of deriving a profit function by calculating profit at each point along a firm's demand curve, critically evaluate this manager's statement. Explain why this strategy might fail to maximize profit, and describe the typical shape of the resulting profit function graph.
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