Employers should be thanked, not punished II

In this post, Steve Landsburg agrees with my sentiment that employers should be thanked, rather than punished. He writes:

Some people voluntarily go out on Sundays and pick up trash in the park. If we collectively decide that we need more trash pickup, do we turn to the people who have been doing this by choice and demand that they do more? Or do we decide that maybe the rest of us should pitch in as well (either by getting out there ourselves or paying others to)?

Exactly. We should be thanking the people who do it by choice, rather than demanding they do more.

Unfortunately, I think some do believe demanding that people doing it by choice is the best route to go, especially if it means that they appear to want a good thing, like clean parks, without actually having to do anything, except talk about it.