Just because someone said &quot;free market&quot; doesn&#x27;t mean you are obligated to recite the generic Litany Against Free Markets. The specific point here is that in a free market you are welcome to decide to volunteer to do something. Nothing about &quot;free markets&quot; prevents it. If you judge yourself to receive more utility from volunteering, then go ahead and do it. No central organization will stop you.<p>The idea that free markets &quot;obligates greed&quot;, in a particular cartoon-villain sense of greed, is propaganda, not what the theory actually says. (Now, we can have a very profitable discussion about whether and where it <i>enables</i> greed, or perhaps <i>structurally encourages it</i>, and some interesting conversations on whether &quot;encourages greed&quot; is even necessarily always bad. But there is no way in which one is <i>obligated</i> to greed, such that you are somehow betraying some sort of ideal if you decide for your own reasons to act altruistically.)<p>I&#x27;m sort of amused at the number of people getting peeved about this. This person is volunteering to work for nearly-free for <i>government civil service</i>... if you are anti-capitalism or anti-free market and think people should be doing more for and with government... isn&#x27;t that exactly what this is?<p>Are we really going to try to spin &quot;someone volunteered to help the government with something&quot; into &quot;free markets are evil&quot;? It seems to get rather into the &quot;doth protest too much, methinks&quot; domain.