non-profit stuff that is better than for-profit stuff

[karlwig]

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Ok, sorry if you think I'm being captain obvious here, but I mainly made this post in he hopes that some of you would share some other examples of when non-profit organizations might outperform for-profit organizations.


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I think there could easilly be a debate about "outperform", and what it actually means in this case.

I'd say that many non-profit health care systems in some countries "outperforms" for-profit systems in other parts of the world, in the sense that everybody that's ill will get help no matter what the expenses is. But "outperform" could also be whats most effective compared to costs, and for that matter it could be the other way around.

but no matter what field it is: i think non-profit stuff have a moral edge that for-profit stuff will never have, simply because for-profit stuff makes actions based on - yeah you guessed it - what makes profit.

i consider this "moral edge" to be extremely important when it comes to police and fire departments. if there were two countries, one with for-profit of both, and the other had non-profit of both, i'd say that the non-profit sollution would outperform the other one overall. (yes, you could still argue what "outperform" actually is.)
fortunately most countries have that sort of stuff tax-founded anyway.

of course its more complicated than that, and i think it would be almost impossible to say that one thing outperforms another just like that. there are positive and negative sides with both systems.