A business has discharged its functions when the customer buys the product, pays for it, and is satisfied with it. Government has discharged its function when its policies are effective. The "non-profit" institution neither supplies goods or services nor controls. Its "product" is neither a pair of shoes, nor an effective regulation. Its product is a changed human being. The non-profit institutions are human-change agents. Their "product" is a cured patient, a child that learns, a young man or woman grown into a self-respecting adult; a changed human life altogether.
Never mind the lit-bros: Infinite Jest is a true classic at age 30
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I'm not what you might consider Infinite Jest's target demographic.
Michelle Zauner, lead vocalist for Japanese Breakfast and author of Crying
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