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Non-profit means the corporation isn't set up to make a profit and the business operates off of donations instead of selling a product. So there is always a profit motive. I wish more people understood this. Everything from Greenpeace to MADD is still a corporation ran by people who want to make lots and lots of cash.
A lot of executives at non-profits do get paid a lot. Non-profits also need enough money to operate and growth is of course desired. What they don’t have that publicly traded corporations and venture capital funded startups have is pressure to continually grow, no matter the societal cost. They also don’t have investors outside the company scraping the cream off the top or manipulating their valuation, and instead, all profits have to be invested back into the company. A non-profit’s products can still decline in quality for various reasons, but there is less of a motive to deliberately enshittify them to make number go up. Compare Mozilla’s AI to Microsoft Edge, for example.
Non-profits seem to work better when they produce a product. But when they produce nothing and just have a goal, they don’t want to close shop after achieving that goal. Like MADD. The woman who founded it left a quarter of century ago because she accomplished what she set out to do. Those running it today don’t want to lose their meal ticket.
Who woulda thunk greed is the denominator??!!