Sorry if this isn’t a correct place to ask this question. I don’t understand how non-profit organization exist in capitalism because how do they sustain themselves? How do they pay their workers if they aren’t generating any profit? Isn’t it just volunteering?
Technically, what’s needed to sustain the business is cash flow; enough cash at the end of the pay period to compensate your employees and vendors.
A lot of R&D businesses and startups don’t make any profit, but they continue operations through loans, in the hopes they discover their niche.
It’s not really a lie, because in capitalism, profit is mandatory for your business to be sustainable. Non-profits still have to make a gross profit when it’s all said and done. It’s just that they don’t retain a net profit.