If a soup kitchen lacks the funds required to pay a minimum wage worker to pour the soup, it would benefit more from donations than from volunteers. If it doesn’t have enough people to perform low-skill tasks and has the money but doesn’t hire workers, then what it needs is competent leadership. In either case, a skilled worker can help a lot more by providing something other than unskilled labor.
If a soup kitchen lacks the funds required to pay a minimum wage worker to pour the soup, it would benefit more from donations than from volunteers. If it doesn’t have enough people to perform low-skill tasks and has the money but doesn’t hire workers, then what it needs is competent leadership. In either case, a skilled worker can help a lot more by providing something other than unskilled labor.
But most people are skilled workers outside free kitchens. Should they all donate?