Other fields effectively also rely on unpaid volunteers. Anything driven by academic research, say medical sciences, overwhelmingly relies on unpaid volunteer p

Other fields effectively also rely on unpaid volunteers. Anything driven by academic research, say medical sciences, overwhelmingly relies on unpaid volunteer peer reviewers. Also the academics producing said papers in the first place... not unpaid (hmm) but also often not really qualified or outright fraudulent. Still, it’s scary that to wield a pneumatic drill you need a license, but to suck in my personal data and store it on an unsecured S3 bucket you need absolutely nothing. To sign off a building you need a qualified surveyor, but medical records storage isn’t audited. Etc etc