Sorry if this isn’t a correct place to ask this question. I don’t understand how non-profit organization exist in capitalism because how do they sustain themselves? How do they pay their workers if they aren’t generating any profit? Isn’t it just volunteering?
This for sure. I’ve worked for a non-profit, and it was an awful experience. Everyone I know who has worked for one shares a similar experience.
We think it has something to do with the toxic way funding is applied for through the government, and the necessarily low wages/over work.
I have been considering opening a co-op with the purpose of providing stable employment and the tools/ space for workers to be politically active. But it would have to be for-profit given the toxicity and restrictions placed on non-profits.