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As opposed to the unaccountable board of a non-profit raking in significant income? Where they can pay themselves a nice bonus if they make more money for the non-profit?


They deleted their comment about you being a troll for this response, but I agree with you. I’d like to know what their response is.


I didn't delete anything, people flagged my reply


Fair enough. Do you plan on replying to them anyways? I’m interested in what your answer would be.


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It doesn’t feel like they are trolling. They gave a legitimate response and you don’t like it. It’s a valid concern that I feel you should address.


Its a completely unproductive answer. Why do you assume a non-profit set up for a cause will predominantly exist to pay it's directors bonuses?

Lets deconstruct the three options on the table:

1) for-profit private -> exists to make money to their shareholders

2) government -> exists to (on paper) provide services to the people, but has a plethora of other reasons of existence (provide jobs for people, provide ego boosts for politicians working in the system)

3) non-profit private -> exists to provide a legal structure around an agreed cause

It is certainly possible someone establishes a non-profit to pocket the money for themselves, but it is a very clear violation of the purpose of the whole structure. In the other two, it is completely acceptable to bounce out of the cause of providing a service to the people, as there are other "goals" for the underlying system.

Whining about directors paying themselves bonuses a low-IQ bait to start flame wars.




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