That way your higher skill can be utiziled while maximizing the benefit the charity received?
This isn't directed just towards you. I always wondered this about volunteering time vs volunteering money.
> Could you not work a high paying job for a few hours and then pay minimum wage to multiple people to go do the door greeting and envelop stuffing?
Some people do - you can look up "earning to give" for example.
The numbers look great, which makes it popular with utilitarians and spreadsheet-lovers.
Critics feel it smells of the sale of indulgences, and point to the likes of Sam Bankman-Fried using charity to excuse their greed, theft and drug abuse while living like royalty.
For some social interactions you get from volunteering is why they do it.
They were just talking about the "efficiency of use of his labor" and I was just trying to point out how to maximize it.