[gslepak]

> Once payment enters the story opportunists and exploitation enters the chat too.

It turns out that it's quite helpful to be able to afford the cost of room & board, food, and utilities as part of being a helpful companion to others. The fellow I spoke with said the pay wasn't much, so like teachers, most of the people who take these important benevolent jobs aren't doing it for the money. If they were in it for the money they'd be working for Facebook.

[gslepak]

Apparently they're volunteers with a stipend. I've updated the post to remove "to be paid" as I don't quite get what the difference is and it seems to be confusing not only me.