Firms typically don't remain forever and one of the sad things about over eager corporate philanthropy has been is that you drive through the countryside in a number of countries and you see the skeletons of former schoolhouses and clinics that companies built that nobody has sustained.
Parasti uzņēmumi „nedzīvo” mūžīgi, un viens no skumjajiem pārāk centīgas uzņēmumu filantropijas aspektiem ir, braucot pa vairāku valstu lauku apvidu, redzēt to bijušo skolu un slimnīcu skeletus, kuras cēluši uzņēmumi, bet kuras pēc tam neviens nav uzturējis.