Volunteer firefighters get paid when they’re working, it’s just implies that it is not a full time position. They have normal jobs that they all drop on a dime to rush to a fire scene to stand around and collect.
Income/ revenue is not the same as profit, just like a meat patty is not a hamburger.
Socially acceptable to use interchangeably and even a dictionary might call them synonyms but they’re not.
Yes volunteer firefighters are paid for their time when responding to an emergency but no one else is making money off the firefighter or the equipment being deployed. We all pitch in through taxes and get a service in exchange, no one is enriched by it.
Volunteer firefighters get paid when they’re working, it’s just implies that it is not a full time position. They have normal jobs that they all drop on a dime to rush to a fire scene to stand around and collect.
Not salty about the system or anything
Income/ revenue is not the same as profit, just like a meat patty is not a hamburger.
Socially acceptable to use interchangeably and even a dictionary might call them synonyms but they’re not.
Yes volunteer firefighters are paid for their time when responding to an emergency but no one else is making money off the firefighter or the equipment being deployed. We all pitch in through taxes and get a service in exchange, no one is enriched by it.
In my experience, the fire department sues through the country for “restitution”, so I got to pay twice…