[patrickthebold]

Typically a for profit business has three main stakeholders: Customers, Employees, and Share Holders.

And they have to balance things like salaries, price of the product, dividends to share holders (though no one really pays dividends anymore, but that's beside the point.)

A non-profit skips the share holders, and is more like a direct exchange of cash for services better two parties, without a third party taking a cut.

Actually, usually there are taxes, so the government is going to take a cut.

So share holders kind of end up acting as a tax, a tax on not having capital, but instead of the money going to the government, it goes to people who happen to have capital.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.