A common excuse for not volunteering is "I can just donate money! My time's worth more than the minimum wage work I'd be doing, after all."<p>But this is so rarely true, especially when so many people are adopting the same mindset. The truth is, time you spend volunteering is generally not time you'd otherwise spend working, but time you'd otherwise spend on Reddit (or, you know, Hacker News) or something equally invaluable. Volunteering is also incredibly sensitive to word-of-mouth, in that if you get a few new volunteers and they come back, they usually bring their friends, colleagues, or at least some donations with them.<p>Besides, volunteering is like exercise to most people -- you invariably feel great after doing it.<p>(P.S. WP-SVBTLE looks bad. Not even talking about the philosophy behind stealing a design, the typography just looks sort of gross and this message might spread even further!)