Economic Corner 38 03/10/2026

Community Service Labor - a friend of mine stated the following idea:  Mayor Mamdani can use community service to get people to shovel the snow instead of hiring people for twenty eight dollars an hour. I [them not richard murray] argue it can be used for many things, to bring forth community. 
In Amendment- I searched to see what can be used for community service in NYC, how many acquire community service in NYC and realized it is many. It is an idea that can work. The problem is that, this cuts against the revenue earning philosophy of labor. To be blunt, the problem is, the USA has a heritage of individuals abusing labor from other individuals to make fiscal fortunes while it has a heritage of laborers upholding a fantasy of merited labor as the basis of labor in the usa. Said two heritages have mutated to become an inability of people in the usa to accept that their labor doesn't warrant financial return no matter what it is, while the wealthy want to use tools to make a permanent fiscal underclass which temporally will never occur. Wisdom which is something only experience or natural inclination can generate in humans prove that all things end and all things include the use of any tool or the existence of any government. When? who knows outside nature, but it will happen.

INFORMATION I FOUND

New York City community service
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HOW DO I KNOW IF I CAN DO COMMUNITY SERVICE FOR MY VIOLATION?:
You will be allowed to do community service, instead of paying a fine, only if your summons is on this list [ LOOK BELOW] and if:
You admit to the charge that is listed on the summons on or before the hearing date that is printed on your summons; or
After your OATH hearing, you receive a decision where the Hearing Officer says that you have the option to perform community service.
COMMUNITY SERVICE OPTIONS:
If any one of the above items is true and you would like to do community service, then you can choose one of the following options to satisfy your summons' community service requirement:
If this list shows that you can do either one or two hours of community service, then you can either:
complete an online educational course; or
complete the community service over the phone.
If this list shows that you can do three hours of community service, then you can complete the community service by webcam; or
You can complete the community service in person, in our Help Center office.
website
https://www.nyc.gov/site/oath/help-center/oath-community-service.page

List of New York City penalties you can get community service for. 
https://www.nyc.gov/assets/oath/downloads/pdf/CJRA-Penalty-Chart-effective.pdf

New York State community service standard
https://www.criminaljustice.ny.gov/opca/communityservicestandards.htm

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