Specifically early content, Pretty Girl is no longer up and there was an on-radio in-studio performance of Bags that I cannot find anywhere. Anyone know why?
As an example: I drink a Red Bull or Red Bull-equivalent almost every day. The margins for a can of Red Bull at a convenience store are massive, and the company's operating margin is somewhere around 25%.
Red Bull is slowly losing ground to competitors because energy drinks are cheap to produce and it is easy to undercut, but these competitors are also profit seekers and crank up the prices as time goes on.
Why not create a non-profit to undercut Red Bull? A 501c3 is legally obligated to spend its would-be profit on its mission, the mission of the company could be to provide consumers with an at-cost energy drink so that they can more effectively pursue their education or whatever charity narrative is needed to satisfy the IRS. In a classical economic paradigm (lol), an at-cost energy drink option should win over time.
Prior art:
There are already non-profit grocery shelf items like Newman's Own pasta sauce, though none that literally exist to provide an at-cost product.
Thought of this when comparing Chess.com (American company with hundreds of employees) to Lichess (feature-equal competitor made by a single French communist) - Chess.com can only compete with sponsorships/advertising and is losing ground to non-profit Lichess.
If I actually pursue this I'll make a generic label and print the fucked up Google Sheets URL on it with the totals for org expenses, just like Lichess https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Si3PMUJGR9KrpE5lngSkHLJKJkb0ZuI4/preview
As far as I can tell, a non-profit that exists to undercut a for-profit is not an impossibility, just risky like any "business".