Playing with notation

Say one wanted to track how much labor was available in a neighborhood. There’s the labor devoted to paid-for employment and there is volunteer labor.

Let’s call the first one W (for wage) and the second one V (for volunteer). Then, one could note the total household available labor- such as seen above.

If you have a neighborhood of five hundred houses, for instance, you could have multiple households with the same labor mix. Or many varieties of labor mixes.

But the usefulness would be to see how the time available for wage labor balanced with the time available for volunteer work usually associated with community work.