Or think of ISOC, who get tens of millions of dollars in free money every year from their stewardship of the .ORG registry, but who decided to hand over control of the nonprofits' TLD of choice to a shadowy cabal of hedge-fund billionaires:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/how-we-saved-org-2020-review
Co-ops, too, are powerful but wildly imperfect. REI is a member co-op that does lots of great things...and also busts unions:
https://prismreports.org/2024/07/17/rei-workers-unionizing-fighting-for-agreemment/
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