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People who don't want any money often provide the best service (and in this case will most likely also have the lowest likelihood of carrying the virus).

• Scoundreller 7y ago
  Aka: people who already have money provide the best free services.
  • reidjs 7y ago
    I would recommend volunteering even to people who aren't wealthy. It has to do with what you said, most people who volunteer are doing so because they have the money to do it instead of work at that moment. So, volunteering potentially puts you around wealthy people who may provide opportunities to you in the future. Not always the case of course, but I would still be pretty broke if it weren't for some job opportunities I found through people I knew from volunteering for nonprofits. Admittedly not everyone can afford to volunteer
    • TheSpiceIsLife 7y ago
      There's an additional reason to volunteer if you can: Volunteering can be good for your mental health, see https://duckduckgo.com/?q=volunteering+improves+mental+health&t=canonical&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=volunteering+improves+mental+healt...
      • Scoundreller 7y ago
        Nono, volunteers have better health than non-volunteers. Volunteers have enough wealth to volunteer (or, as stated, can get hooked up with better opportunities, but gotta jump over that first barrier). Lots of things you would need to (obviously) control for. Dunno if I’ll ever see a double-blinded randomized trial on volunteering though.
        • TheSpiceIsLife 7y ago
          Do we have to keep arguing about the mental health benefits of socialising, getting out, moving about, contributing to something? The only people who are arguing "more research is needed" are social science professors and their PhD candidates. Yeah, sure, if your mental health is so poor you can't leave the house, it goes without saying those who can get out of the house do, be default, have better mental health. That doesn't mean those people aren't deriving any additional benefit. You don't have to be wealthy to volunteer, you can be homeless and living on government allowances and still volunteer.
          • dvbxcmxn 7y ago
            > The only people who are arguing "more research is needed" are social science professors and their PhD candidates. > Dunno if I’ll ever see a double-blinded randomized trial on volunteering though. Social scientists generally don't do these kinds of studies. A more typical research question might be something like "what forms of volunteering do italian grandpas take part in, and what are the perceived benefits do these efforts for themselves and the communities they serve?" This would be addressed through open-ended semi-structured interviews through various sampling methods, but probably a snowball sampling strategy. The research goes in the directions that the subjects lead it in, with effort being made to tie up loose ends as part of a theory-building process. Basically a structured and evidence-based attempt to come up with a coherent explanation.
• kazinator 7y ago
  Not if they need money; then they have a way of disappearing when a paying gig shows up.