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There are tons of examples of non profit that are run for profit (mostly profit / career advancement of those in charge and their families and friends).

Firefox spend a ton on pet projects to boost careers. Now the core product lost most matketshare and is not what people want.

Wikipedia collects a ton of money and wastes it on everything bar wikipedia (mostly salaries and pet proje ts).

There are those charities where 95% of collected money is spent on own costs and only 5% reaches those in need / the topics that they should solve.

Control over non profits is a joke. People in charge respond to nobody.




None of your examples are legally profit though.


We should abolish taxes, so real companies won't need to hide behind the non-profit status and real non-profits could shine.




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