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> Corporations and robots must pay. Greenpeace is a (non-profit) corporation. Unions are corporations. Municipalities. Colleges and universities. * https://en
by throw0101c 9mo ago
> Corporations and robots must pay.
Greenpeace is a (non-profit) corporation. Unions are corporations. Municipalities. Colleges and universities.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_person https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_person
Should they have to pay?
- noosphr 9mo agoYes.
- llbbdd 9mo agoYes. Non-profits are more than capable of abusing the commons, the purpose of even small monetary requirements is to put a bound on that.
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- isatty 9mo agoYes. Not for profit does not mean they don’t have money. With that logic why should non profits have to pay for anything at all?
- Muromec 9mo agoFor the same logic they are tax-exempt. There is a general consensus that their goal is the greater good (like developing sudo and such) and not the usual capitalistic good of generating more money. Then again, you usual Friday outing of FANG engineers may have more money than some nonprofits too.
- degamad 9mo agoI used to volunteer for a local non-profit a few years ago. From time to time, I would reflect on the fact that Microsoft and other commercial suppliers were getting paid for providing services to us, but I was expected to work for free.
- LunaSea 9mo agoIf Mozilla and Wikimedia can pay millions in salary to their CEOs, I'm sure that they can spare a few thousands for open source projects.