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it's a matter of motivation (quokk.au)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/mop
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A meme counter-arguing the claim "Without a profit motive, no one would be productive!" by showing examples of unpaid productivity: Wikipedia, complex Minecraft builds, open-source code, and volunteer firefighters.
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[–] 6 points 7 months ago (12 children)

Volunteer firefighters charge you? I mean sometimes they ask for donations I guess.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    In belgium the personal statute of the firefighters themselves doesn’t matter for the eventual invoice. Some services are paying, other are not (yet). They get compensated for their time though. Who the fuck would not compensate them for their services? I nearly lost my father a couple of times and I practically never saw him growing because he was so invested in that… imagine that for free…

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I agree that it is absolutely worth funding fire departments and paying the workers! In the US we have both "professional" (paid) and volunteer (unpaid) firefighters. The volunteers are almost always in rural counties. They have other, unrelated jobs, and are "on call" in their free time (they carry around a radio).

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    Well so are our volunteers :) They have daytime jobs + firefighters by night or on the weekends. And they are paid / compensated for their hours in the service.

    Yours are not?!

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    The fire department I volunteered at charged you for stuff like car crashes. A few weeks ago I got a bill from the fire department for a car accident I caused. Maybe it's a European thing? The fire department does get funding from the country and from events they host (that's probably just an Austrian thing)

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Just Austria being weird it sounds like to me

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