[wanderingstan]

I would second this interpretation.

When I lived in Germany I wanted to do some volunteer work and read up on the possibilities. A local explained to me, "Offering to volunteer at the library or a school sounds as strange to a German as someone in the US offering to volunteer with street sweeping, or with the IRS. That's the job of the government. That's what taxes are for."

[learnstats2]

Someone volunteering at a library can be seen as a rich person taking away a paid job opportunity for a poor person.