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> not all businesses have investors.

If I form a business and take no outside money, I am the investor, particularly in the context of GP’s point that “[businesses exist]…to make investors money.”



So in that case, you're investing your time in return for money/happiness? Sounds like the same proposition as employees.


And money to get the company started. Even before a dollar of revenue comes in, lawyers, accountants, and the state need to be paid, and someone has to front or pay for the real estate. And employees are guaranteed a wage, unlike founders. These differences are often overlooked, seemingly out of convenience for the argument.


It continues:

> But assuming that the primary purpose is to make money (...)


Non-financial businesses generally exist to provide goods and services. If FedEx stops delivering packages and provides no other goods or services, does it really need to exist?


If Fedex stopped making money, would it have any reason to continue?


If it stopped making money, it would have no ability to continue - at least, not for an indefinite time.


what about nonprofits?


Nonprofits still need to break even or raise funds (membership fees, donations).


What part of that involves making money for investors?'

How much profit are nonprofits expected to make?




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