Corporations are a form of memeplex, a living entity that sustains itself with a set of rules and incentives.
If you consider a beehive or an ant colony to be a single living entity, then a corporation probably is too, it's a single larger entity with its own homeostasis and agency, even if it incorporates individual organic actors into its being.
"profit-seeking" is the goal we have chosen to encode most of them with in their bylaws. Non-profits (in principle) have different pro-social goals (I'm ignoring the Komen Foundation-type "mimics"" here). And that's what they do.
If you consider a beehive or an ant colony to be a single living entity, then a corporation probably is too, it's a single larger entity with its own homeostasis and agency, even if it incorporates individual organic actors into its being.
"profit-seeking" is the goal we have chosen to encode most of them with in their bylaws. Non-profits (in principle) have different pro-social goals (I'm ignoring the Komen Foundation-type "mimics"" here). And that's what they do.