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> “You've got a next generation who haven't engaged as a philanthropic community and volunteer community in the same way, at the same scale.”

That's basically a kind way of saying that they mock the crazy old guy who shakes his fists at the cloud, and mumbles something about Microsoft and Google.

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At my university, I remember having obligatory "volunteer" hours. I remember doing my internship unpaid.

While I know that's how things simply are, I imagine in current climate it'd put off a lot of people away from anything that resembles volunteering. "If you're good at something, never do it for free."

Actually it's that inflation and cost of living has squeezed people so much that volunteering and prestigious low paid internships/ unpaid internships are mostly done by people from affluent backgrounds where as back in the day the middle class was the rich of today.

Also, the volunteering stuff we had was mostly related to helping uni organise events and so on.

So we were unpaid labor.

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