Please do what you can.
Every little bit helps.
Dear McSweeney's Reader, I'm writing an ethics column for the NY Times magazine, responding to readers' letters of which there have been few. Rest assured there's no pay involved, so you needn't worry about being corrupted. And letters that run in the magazine are signed only with initials and a city, so your ordinary life will not be disrupted by fame. I hope so. He countered that an evil of McCarthyism was denying someone a livelihood because of his beliefs.