Broadly defined, the term “social enterprise” is meant to distinguish those businesses that are seeking to have a positive impact on the flourishing of the planet and its people, in addition to profit. These can be for profit and nonprofit—again, poorly chosen nomenclature, given that every organization seeks to make some amount of profit from their undertaking, either through donations or sales of products or services, with the real distinction being what they do with their profit. In this respect, the converse would be the business that is so focused on profitability, that it pursues that maximization of wealth while externalizing costs for the rest of society to bear.
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