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Non-profits, the big ones at least, are a scam by rich people to privatize what should essentially be nationalized government services. They get to pretend they're helping the public at a fraction of their capability to paper over their ill gotten gains elsewhere. It's like a drug lord buying a church, but they get to take the spend out of their taxes. Alternatively, they are a way to create a tax free pool of money for their children to play with by putting them on the board.

Non-profits weren't really as much of a thing until the neoliberal era of privatizing everything.

Of course, there are "real" non-profits, those kinds of activities are a real thing, such as organizing solely member funded organizations to serve the people, but in America, this is a marginal amount of the money in the system.




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