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Germany is a wonderful place — and aside from a few racist remarks when I grew my beard — I'm forever grateful for what that country did to my mental health, career, and future.

Indeed it should be up to Germans to decide how to handle this, but given their general respect for The Common Good, I'm positive about such a law. Godspeed!

>>port11+(OP)
Someone from DE pointed out elsewhere in the thread this could be used to avoid paying ppl properly -- classify someone as "volunteering" to be paid a paltry sum with no pension contributions etc to work on tools that benefit for profit corps.

So definitely want to be mindful you don't open the door to tax avoidance and exploitation under the guise of charity.

I know very little about the EU, but I've worked with nonprofits a lot in the USA and there's a lot that are basically corporate cut outs used to lobbying that's a stretch to say is in the public interest.

>>firefa+4F
I've commented elsewhere in the thread that such a thing might not be possible. I don't know about Germany, but volunteering for private companies in Belgium is illegal. Of course we might end up with a Mozilla-style NGO/corporation setup, but that is something for prosecutors to look into.

>>port11+bv1
Thanks for your input.