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This post reflects on a critical difference between two recent major international conferences, IATEFL in Brighton and TESOL in Chicago. I attended both, the one in Chicago, physically in the windy city, and the one in Brighton, virtually. I spent thousands of dollars from my teacher's salary to attend the former, and nothing to attend the latter. However, the profit may accrue to IATEFL, the one I might be more likely to support on a sustained basis, considering that it's more in line with a teacher's desire to share good work without charging those who can ill afford it for every aspect of it (analogous to the mindset driving medical care in America vs that in UK).