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i wish people would stop falling for non-profits. Show me one company that hasn’t wasted 99% of its money after being around for more than two years. Most of t

i wish people would stop falling for non-profits. Show me one company that hasn’t wasted 99% of its money after being around for more than two years. Most of the employees are young and spend their time virtue signaling. Eventually, they leave and talk about how disillusioned they are, realizing all the money was just vaporized. It’s all run by Boomers and Gen Xers, and it feels like a laundering scheme.

DaveZale 1y ago
I've worked for a non-profit based in Columbus OH that's been around for 100 years. I also worked for a big pharma that's been around since the end of the Civil War. Hey, there is much more to technology than what is now considered "tech" which I agree is generally either a money pit, or producing useless addictive products. Most of it deserves an early grave. Some of it deserves to survive, but gets acquired and killed by our altruistic ;-) monopolies.
throwaway81523 1y ago
I've worked in several nonprofits and don't feel disillusioned by them. Of course there are crappy or deceptive ones out there, but that was never in doubt.
- throwmeaway222 1y ago
  but you have to admit you "helped" people in need by doing 1% of what they needed. If that person just had a week of your salary, or fuck a year to help 50 families, the help would have gone way further. Non-profits don't profit the entity, it profits the employees and that's 100% what they are designed to do. the employees are the charity recipients.
  - snypher 1y ago
    Not knowing anything about the nature of the work of the person you replied to means you are not qualified to comment on it.
  - tomdeboer 1y ago
    That’s a very cynical take. You are not completely wrong of course, but an NGO like you describe is able to survive in a capitalist environment. Without it, it would not succeed. It succeeds at this _while_ sharing and redistributing resources. Not in a perfect, or even the most effective way, but one that allows the employee to find a balance between a job and volunteering. And one that is a net benefit to society (given the cause is beneficial etc), compare to for-profit companies that exclusively benefit shareholders
  - ranger_danger 1y ago
    I think some would argue that only helping a small number of people temporarily, may not be the best use of his time nor money. Maybe more altruistic than doing nothing, yes, but there may be better options still.

DaveZale 1y ago

I've worked for a non-profit based in Columbus OH that's been around for 100 years. I also worked for a big pharma that's been around since the end of the Civil War. Hey, there is much more to technology than what is now considered "tech" which I agree is generally either a money pit, or producing useless addictive products. Most of it deserves an early grave. Some of it deserves to survive, but gets acquired and killed by our altruistic ;-) monopolies.

throwaway81523 1y ago

I've worked in several nonprofits and don't feel disillusioned by them. Of course there are crappy or deceptive ones out there, but that was never in doubt.

throwmeaway222 1y ago
but you have to admit you "helped" people in need by doing 1% of what they needed. If that person just had a week of your salary, or fuck a year to help 50 families, the help would have gone way further. Non-profits don't profit the entity, it profits the employees and that's 100% what they are designed to do. the employees are the charity recipients.
- snypher 1y ago
  Not knowing anything about the nature of the work of the person you replied to means you are not qualified to comment on it.
- tomdeboer 1y ago
  That’s a very cynical take. You are not completely wrong of course, but an NGO like you describe is able to survive in a capitalist environment. Without it, it would not succeed. It succeeds at this _while_ sharing and redistributing resources. Not in a perfect, or even the most effective way, but one that allows the employee to find a balance between a job and volunteering. And one that is a net benefit to society (given the cause is beneficial etc), compare to for-profit companies that exclusively benefit shareholders
- ranger_danger 1y ago
  I think some would argue that only helping a small number of people temporarily, may not be the best use of his time nor money. Maybe more altruistic than doing nothing, yes, but there may be better options still.