[news] The Overhead of Expensive " Professionals" in Activism

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It amazes me how people go about rationalizing their work as being exponentially more expensive than others' work. For instance, a "manager" who does not do the grunt work, somehow will justify his hourly worth as double to triple that of the workers' somehow. But I see a correlation here between what Judi Bari was saying about the difference between local and corporate loggers in our forests and the twisted capitalism modern society has come to accept as a norm. She said that perhaps there was some way to support the local loggers in forested areas, but there was definitely no way to support outside corporations coming into the local forests and pillaging all they can for profit. In the same way, we may be able to support quite a large network of paid folks in our communities, if we could get the white middle-upper class to quit justifying their worth as 2-10 times the worth of those working (and volunteering) around them.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/5/25446/85038