I used to take my truck to Larry Roberts of Roberts auto. He’s a neighbor and friend and did oil changes and basic stuff. Larry closed up shop cause he can’t work on modern cars and doesn’t have the tools or staff to handle anything more than basics for cars older than the 00s.

Larry is great but he’s not even relevant to the discussion because you might as well be describing a DIY or hobby shop.

None of the people or organizations you describe are relevant to how the world works, they are temporary outliers with limited impact for a brief period

Even then, Larry didn’t work for free and wasn’t running it out of the goodness of his heart. He did it for money

The only people I know doing shit that isn’t for money are the people that actively work on the trails that I walk on in Northern Virginia and guess what, they work on them so they can have nice trails not because somebody else is going to use the trail.