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^^I'm not disputing that a tangible contribution has been taken from you. Same goes for everyone except evaders.
I think there are people out there who do more 'giving back' than others, and it's got very little to do with money, apart from the fact that many of the more compassionate professions pay the shittest salaries.
Stuff I've done that I feel good about (which is easy to measure, due to direct feedback from members of society) includes voluntary work with Stroke survivors, clinical work with the communicatively impaired, teaching language students, caring for sick relatives, those days where I really nail the whole being a loving husband and/or father thing, (free) coaching for amateur sportspeople, cycling advocacy work, making conscious decisions as a consumer about which companies I'm giving money too, etc.
But I'm not trying to suggest it's a do-gooding competition. I wouldn't have a chance of winning anyway :) What I'm probably getting at is that the tangibility of social contributions is not measured in £££.