I dunno about the metric you are judging volunteering on here. Do the people who don&#x27;t volunteer and don&#x27;t work have enough money to get to the place where they will provide the volunteering service.<p>As context and a little thought experiment:<p>I have just switched careers and have had to cut back on expenses to a bare minimum while I was learning the skills required to get a job in my desired field. I had decided not to work and focus 100% on learning. During this time I barely left the house and if I did I would walk, sometimes up to 10km, because I didn&#x27;t have the money for even the train (food and rent come first). On the flip side my mother was a housewife while my dad worked (very traditional I know!) but she would volunteer in 3 different places because she could afford to (time and money).