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The Costs of Over Professionalization in the Movement
I think maybe we've had a previous chat a little bit about like there's always a bit of like, oh, if you get paid so much, you're not really doing it for the animals. But I think what needs to be avoided is among activists, this like, um, valorization or martyrdom of like, if you're not sacrificing everything, you'renot hardcore. There are real costs to like over professionalization and over. Like just having a few super large NGOs who are kind of like, sclerotic and captured by the needs of the organization running everything.