Chris Metzler wrote:
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 14:19:12 -0400 Hal Vaughan wrote:And that proves even more that you are not volunteering your time unless you get something for it. That's not volunteering. Volunteering is giving without expecting a ROI.This is fiction. Everyone who volunteers gets a return on their investment; without it, they wouldn't volunteer. That "return" may not be in some sort of traditional form like cash, goods, or services; but if the volunteer absolutely truly got nothing out of it -- no sense of satisfaction, no gladness at having been able to help another, absolutely nothing -- then there is nothing to drive the volunteer towards that activity as opposed to another.
That isn't what he was responding to. The term the IRS uses is
"intangible benefit", I believe. But what he referred to was
the specific point made that what was built was built specifically
because the builder/implementer found it useful himself, and
for no other reason. By any definition, this is not volunteer
work. Allowing others to use the results is a bonum, yes, perhaps
even a mitzvah, but not volunteer work.
Mike
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