While I agree with you to a degree, I don't feel it's quite the same.

I do not have anything invested flying there. It's not a job, if I can't or don't want to fly that day, then I won't be flying. They just needed some extra help and I was available as I wasn't doing anything else anyways so I decided to do it. I get free food, free skydiving and free time in the air in return. Plus I already knew some of the people, so I get to hang out with friends and have made new friends since. Plus I have flown the best skydivers in this country, literally.

If I hadn't started flying there, I would have 100 less hours of flying and been 8.5months out of currency, which would mean a flying job is even further out of reach for me.

Now if you would like to give me $10,000, I will gladly take it and go get my CFI's and rent a plane for the next ~150hrs as you seem to think that is a more honorable method than what I am doing now...