Social enterprise does not exist

 

And yet it does, according to this roundup from Europe:

[S]ocial businesses “that according to the media, academia, the government and the wider public don’t exist, are today at the front line when it comes to dealing with social emergencies”. But unacknowledged social enterprises exist in Denmark too, where there are more than 9 thousand non profit organisations involved in the provision of public services. And Poland, where entrepreneurial projects with a high social impact have to operate under the juridical terms “foundation” or “association”.

As a method of proving the real impact of social enterprise despite the lack of a law acknowledging their existence, the article's approach reminds me of this classic passage from Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson:

After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the nonexistence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it -- "I refute it thus."