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> SE has always been a for-profit business, this makes Volunteering more like Free Labor and less like "doing something good for humanity".

> If a business model can not pay for labor, then it needs to be a Non-profit Foundation, not a for-profit business

Considering executive compensation at many non-profits, I don't think non-profit status alone is a good indicator of anything.

As for SO / SE, I didn't volunteer time and effort in light of their non-profit status, I volunteered in light of their mission. It was about putting in some amount of effort to make the world a better place. I couldn't care less if they made money off of it, just like I don't care if someone takes my open-source work and manages to make a business of it.