The productive forces of capitalism will stand clear if there is no customer who can pay them their profit. Providing public services has long been held the proper sphere for government, but has become too expensive to suit the capital interests that have shrunk government and cut taxes for two decades. The result is a society that cannot marshal its resources to address essential functions, such as early education and mentoring of children, because there is no quick profit. Volunteer community service is the manifest expression of the irrationality of a profit-driven economy. All productive labor in a society, paid or volunteer, bears the stamp of the class relations of that society.
People volunteer their time and labors according to their individual interests and sympathies.
Under capitalism, the result is that collective direction is lacking. In a New Union society, the material needs of society will be satisfied by collectively set production policies. No one will be forced into servitude for a pay check, so all labor will be volunteer labor. The available jobs will not be restricted to those that will generate a profit for financial investors. If the society decides that it needs mentoring programs, it will direct resources to that task.