[Leica] Be enlightened: Work for free!

[Peter Klein]

LUG:  I just received the following "flickrmail" request to publish one 
of my photographs in a calendar.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/5265537626/
For free, of course.  Here's the note I received"

    "We have seen your touching photograph shown in the link below, and
    would love to include it in our Prayer & Meditation Calendar 2018,
    which can be seen here: PrayerMeditationCalendar.org. Due to budget
    constraints, our nonprofit universal spiritual organization
    publishes this calendar each year largely through the kindness of
    photographers who donate their images. All of us serve as unpaid
    volunteers to further the cause of love and unity among all beings.

    "We offer to send a calendar to the photographers and provide the
    credit lines they prefer. Would an arrangement like this be
    agreeable to you? If so we will need the image highest res & 300 ppi
    on the shortest side, your preferred credit line and your mailing
    address."

The signer has a one year-old flickr account with no photographs. This 
is the organization involved:
http://truthconsciousness.org/about/truth-consciousness-organization/
And I found this:
http://www.westword.com/news/hide-the-swami-5055176

Anyway, it made me feel pretty low.  If my work is only of value to scam 
artists and bottom-feeders, and only if I give it away, why bother?

--Peter