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?

  • ☭ 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗘𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 ☭@lemmygrad.ml
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    6 months ago

    decades or centuries of

    • propaganda about the nature of capitalism and how the "risks" taken by capitalists (which are negligible compared to the risks taken by workers -- at worst, a capitalist will become unable to continue to exploit others and be "demoted" to a worker) entitle them to keep the surplus value, and
    • lies about alternative economic systems and the countries in which they are/were implemented in order to promote the idea that, despite its "flaws" (by design), capitalism is less terrible than the alternatives