Sorry if this is the wrong community but just needed to vent. I was told about a position in my organization that I thought was great and paid. Got there and found out there is no pay.
Outside of actual slavery, why would anyone expect anyone to work for literally nothing?
Orgs depend on unpaid labor because otherwise you'd need to pay people. Orgs would then need much larger dues/income than they do now.
Let's say it's a socialist org paying $15/hour with no benefits at 35 hours per week (i.e. aesthetically good but really not great). So, $525/week. With an org of 100 members, that's $5.25 per week per member, $21 per month per person just to support one paid employee.
If the org is small, only 15 members, it's $140 per member per month.
Org work should be paid but we need to be very strategic about it because we don't control enough funds to make it practicable for small orgs or for medium-size to have multiple. Or find other ways to get funding.