Yea, OP's point is that it's not about deserving it, it's that there's always someone who thinks anything available for free means that they can just take the whole lot for themselves, and/or profit from it.

I remember the last company I worked for that tried the whole "Free food if you stay a little late" thing. They'd buy a few boxes of pizzas and set them out int he break room with the expectation that you'd take a slice or two. Well, of course, eventually one or two people started taking entire boxes home for themselves and then that "perk" inevitably ended.