andrewducker | (Reply)

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Oh, interesting!

That makes sense. But I also can't help thinking, there are lots of worthwhile rewarding things that get done because someone decided to give it a go, but when they become load bearing for society, it usually becomes necessary to make them someone's job somehow because we start to need the level of commitment it's usually not reasonable or possible to get from someone working voluntarily. I'm thinking of examples like, something that might be done by a charity or by a government welfare program. But it's always an awkward balance because choosing to do it as opposed to no-one doing it really IS worthwhile; but that typically comes with not wanting to just walk away if it becomes too much. You found a good balance with good boundaries, but I think it's often really hard to have clear boundaries if you haven't thought in advance of "what is too much" (and it seems common to struggle with that, especially when there's no clear dividing line between "supporting people using it this much" and "supporting people as much as they actually need which is now more than one person can do")