> I live in an area where people dump debris (furniture, construction debris, yard waste) in the public park and on sidewalks every day.

>I would love to hire security to watch for dumpers and report them to the city's dumping hotline, along with descriptions and plate numbers.

If that's really a serious problem in your area, you and your neighbors can set up a neighborhood watch/surveillance cameras/etc. to address that without hiring private security to do it for you.

Or are you too good to support your neighbors and neighborhood with your time and effort?

Want to have a good neighborhood? Be a good neighbor.

I spend seven hours a week cleaning up litter, watching for dumpers, and reporting garbage; that is the limit of the time and effort I can give.

I have no more time but I do have money.

Supporting my neighbors and neighborhood is exactly what I want to do - assuming they also want clean streets - so your criticism is really a stretch.

This is one of the things neighborhood watch programs are aimed to do.

you can probably do that right now with someone from fiverr

Just clicked for me that someone on Fiverr living somewhere very cheap could pilot an internet connected drone that can return to a charging pad and it would replace a lot of these use cases.