Introduction
If their impact is totally neutral, then our pace of world improvement proceeds at a rate of 0.2-0.3% per year. Therefore, while this system guarantees job security for Non-Profit Organization workers, the hurrier they go the behinder they get. Ask any Non-Profit worker if they feel this way. They all do. And for good reason. It is clear that, even under ideal circumstances, Non-Profit Organizations cannot keep up with making the world a Good Place by themselves. All is not lost, though! Another path forward is to focus on what we do at work in for-profit businesses. For-Profit Corporations could take as a primary aim to make the places where they work Good Places by the same labor that generates their profits. People who want to make the world a better place don’t have to just sit around saying, “I wish more people would give me more money so I can go out in the world and do more good.” They can look for economically sustaining work that both pays their bills by the profit it generates and makes the world a better place. We all need to resist the artificial distinction suggested by the tax system. Don’t allow the tax structure to bifurcate our lives into: For-Profit, make money; Non-Profit, do good. If the work we do to earn a living doesn’t also build up Good Places at the same time, we can’t make up for it by our donations and our volunteer hours on evenings and over weekends and the occasional mission trip week. We spend so much more time at work than we do volunteering! If our work is at best neutral and at worst damaging, our few spare hours and dollars can’t make up the difference. That’s why all of the Non-Profit organizations who are working to make the world a better place are always short of resources. We cannot donate our way into Good Places. If we spend the majority of our time at work serving the principle of achieving the highest efficiency possible, earning the most money we possibly can, as that causes damage or neglect to human relationships, damage or neglect to the community, the same to the physical world, we can’t make up for those effects in our spare time.
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