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When the company buys the house you live in is that an employee benefit? Really, is just playing fool pretending getting everything in your life paid is "just a

When the company buys the house you live in is that an employee benefit? Really, is just playing fool pretending getting everything in your life paid is "just a benefit" and not a profit, that getting everything in your life sorted out is exactly what profiteers do with profit anyways.

skissane 7y ago
An organisation providing its employees with residential accomodation is not unheard of, and not at all specific to religion. It is common for governments to provide housing to senior officials (head of state or government, senior ministers, etc) and ambassadors. That doesn't make those governments for-profit, and the President/Prime Minister/Ambassador/etc is not a stockholder/owner of the government receiving a profit distribution from it. Historically, even relatively junior employees were often provided with accomodation. One of my favourite examples is a couple of unusual residences in Sydney, Australia, which are houses built into sewer vents [1], [2]. The government-owned water utility built these residences for the sewer workers who maintained the vents to live in (along with their families). That didn't make these sewer workers somehow recipients of a "profit distribution", nor did it make the government-owned water utility a "for-profit". (The houses still exist, but are now sold or rented-out to non-employees, since providing employees with residential accomodation is far less common than it used to be–and the sewer vents are still in use to ventilate the main sewers that run beneath them.) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corunna_Road_Sewer_Vent_and_Cottage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corunna_Road_Sewer_Vent_and_Co... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_Street_Sewer_Vent_and_Cottages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_Street_Sewer_Vent_and_...
- mattigames 7y ago
  In this case such "employees" are also the ones deciding who is gonna keep running the organization for the next generation (therfor enjoying the exact same benefits); all in all is just a for-profit doing a lot of lawyering play to call themselves a non-profit, a non-profit should be exclusively a term for organizations that barely survive month-to-month, if you are amassing billions you aren't that.
dragonwriter 7y ago
> When the company buys the house you live in is that an employee benefit? Yes, when the company owns it and keeps the house (potentially assigning it to your successor) when you leave the position, absolutely.
- TomMarius 7y ago
  You forgot the option when it's tax fraud

skissane 7y ago

An organisation providing its employees with residential accomodation is not unheard of, and not at all specific to religion. It is common for governments to provide housing to senior officials (head of state or government, senior ministers, etc) and ambassadors. That doesn't make those governments for-profit, and the President/Prime Minister/Ambassador/etc is not a stockholder/owner of the government receiving a profit distribution from it. Historically, even relatively junior employees were often provided with accomodation. One of my favourite examples is a couple of unusual residences in Sydney, Australia, which are houses built into sewer vents [1], [2]. The government-owned water utility built these residences for the sewer workers who maintained the vents to live in (along with their families). That didn't make these sewer workers somehow recipients of a "profit distribution", nor did it make the government-owned water utility a "for-profit". (The houses still exist, but are now sold or rented-out to non-employees, since providing employees with residential accomodation is far less common than it used to be–and the sewer vents are still in use to ventilate the main sewers that run beneath them.) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corunna_Road_Sewer_Vent_and_Cottage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corunna_Road_Sewer_Vent_and_Co... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_Street_Sewer_Vent_and_Cottages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_Street_Sewer_Vent_and_...

mattigames 7y ago
In this case such "employees" are also the ones deciding who is gonna keep running the organization for the next generation (therfor enjoying the exact same benefits); all in all is just a for-profit doing a lot of lawyering play to call themselves a non-profit, a non-profit should be exclusively a term for organizations that barely survive month-to-month, if you are amassing billions you aren't that.

dragonwriter 7y ago

> When the company buys the house you live in is that an employee benefit? Yes, when the company owns it and keeps the house (potentially assigning it to your successor) when you leave the position, absolutely.

TomMarius 7y ago
You forgot the option when it's tax fraud