Charity

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knightstyle said:

We support and my DW is a trustee of a charity that pays no salaries.  We give a meal every day, 365 days a year to homeless and needy people plus advice on benefits, housing etc.
That is the kind of charity we all should be supporting.

Excellent.  And it's nice for you that you're in the privileged position that you are, that you can afford to do charitable work for free.   What you're doing with your free time is a good thing. 

For a lot of people however (about 800k people in the UK) working for a charity *is* their job.   It's how they pay their mortgage and put food on their table.  I'm sure a lot of them would love to be in the position to do the work they do for free... but they're not.  People who do paid for for charities generally aren't living in large detached houses and driving around in sports cars.