&gt; <i>two groups have (basically) the same effect on the world</i><p>There&#x27;s &#x27;basically&#x27; and then there&#x27;s &#x27;basically&#x27;. In the article, it suggests that Amazon misled the potential employees with &quot;temporary-to-permanent&quot; when they were actually &quot;seasonal&quot; jobs. The article&#x27;s main interviewee then talks about how that made things worse for the people she knew.<p>A for-profit has a lot of motive for misleading people or withholding information. A non-profit has much less motive - if the point of the non-profit is to help demographic X, then lying to demographic X (or engaging in other activity to screw them, intentionally or unintentionally) is much less likely to happen.<p>The effect on the world is a lot more complex than &quot;X people got N jobs at $rate&quot;.