Nonlinear’s Evidence: Debunking False and Misleading Claims — EA Forum
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Recently, Ben Pace wrote a well-intentioned blog post mostly based on complaints from 2 (of 21) Nonlinear employees who 1) wanted more money, 2) felt…
  • flere-imsahoEnglish
    13·
    2 years ago

    i have not enough energy to check if that was mentioned before, but anyways it’s a good reminder: the whole cozy enterprise is, indeed, not a registered tax-exempt organisation, and none of the threee nonlinears returned by the irs search engine does seem to have anything in common with the nonlinear dot org.

    • EvinceoEnglish
      12·
      2 years ago

      Fooling EAs is a lot easier and less risky than fooling the IRS.

      • flere-imsahoEnglish
        8·
        2 years ago

        i love that no-one of the lw commenters seemed to check the irs non-profit database.

        • flere-imsahoEnglish
          8·
          2 years ago

          ah, apparently there’s an activity popular in the ea circles that is called “fiscal sponsoring” which deals with such unpleasantness. (in the meantime there’s a question in the comments about puerto rico minimum wage compliance that’s – by pure omission – left without any reply whatsoever)