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Stamping Out Hunger for $25/Hr

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Sun, 2009-05-10 12:37 — The Conductor
Topic: 
Economics
Places: 
U.S.A.
Organizations: 
MSM

Pretty much every media outlet ran a story about yesterday’s national food drive. Letter carriers were lauded for their work collecting donations to food shelves. But were the letter carriers being charitable? Or were they just doing their job?

A brief search of the net offered no evidence that postal workers were doing anything for free. Sure, they carried some extra weight, but should that count as “charity”?

Since they’re in uniform, in addition to all their pay and benefits, the public was also covering any additional risks the workers faced. Strained back from too many cans? Not charity, but a gateway to a compensation claim.

Helping bring food to hungry people is a virtuous endeavor. Misrepresenting that work is not virtuous.