You know “exactly” how conservation works?

Where did you study? Where have you done conservation?
When undertaking a project like this, what would your first steps be?
Do you really think - that even with your intentionally absurd $5k/hr rate - that this project will only take one person a week?

Tell me anything off the…

professional sports organizations

The players don’t charge anyone to negotiate with them.
Teams who have contracts with those players get that fee.

But please, do continue to talk down to others on this topic...

And ultra-capitalist dickwads complaining about athlete salaries is immensely funny to me.

More to the point... This isn’t about markets being free. It’s about workers having a say, and/or the freedom of agency in choosing their employer. That kind of (gasp!) union talk is hardly the kind of “markets not being free…

How many years of conservation experience do you have?

Just curious since you’re claiming to be expert enough in this field to confidently call $300,000 an unreasonable cost.

You clearly understand how conservation works...so, this is a valuable comment.

Most conservators require a college degree and at least one masters degree. They usually are paid $35-40K a year.
Totally unreasonable, right, for 2-5 years of specialized training?

The process you described for fixing these things...is akin to saying “I’m not paying for an architect, when I have a perfectly good set of…

As someone who works in this field, there isn’t an emoji frowny enough to show my sadness at reading this comment.

And I know you’re being fair and genuine. But that kinda makes it worse. If calm, reasonable people have this little idea what the cost of preserving things like this (and perhaps more importantly than…