Non Profits? No such thing

Profit doesn’t always come in the form of money or financial gain. There are many ways to profit.

Most “non-profits” are not designed for an economic accounting of financial gain, but rather act as a mechanism to garner attention, clout, and power. At surface level: to further an agenda. But when you dig deeper, there is always more than one agenda.

Take homelessness. A multi-billion dollar industry. Yes it is an industry.

Do a quick google search to see how much money is spent on homelessness in the US.

Then google how many people are homeless…. It’s less than a million people. So how is it that billions of dollars are spent, EVERY YEAR, on a problem that only affects less than a million people.

Lets round up on the homeless number and down on the expenditure.

If you say 1 Million people a year are homeless, and $1 billion is spent on homelessness. That works out to $1000 per person.

That may not seem like a lot, but to a homeless person, that could be enough to get them back on their feet. Just ask someone who has been homeless.

Now consider that the federal budget for homelessness is actually 10x that amount… every year.

So why then is there still homelessness? Because an entire industry has formed around it, and it sustains a large population of people by keeping them employed. There is no incentive to truly end homelessness, because all of those people would be out of jobs.

It’s a complicated topic to be sure. Some people truly are homeless because of mental illness. But not all of them. Even if you considered them all to be incapable of caring for themselves, we spend more money faking it, than it would cost to put every single homeless person in an assisted living situation for life.

So, think twice before contributing to those “non-profits” that time and time again have squandered and misappropriated funds through mismanagement, and corruption. Selfish interests are the primary motivators for most people.