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Someone doing it for love, which is either beautiful or how they get exploited.
means Someone who does something for pleasure rather than pay, without professional training or guaranteed skill.
from From French 'amateur,' borrowed directly from Latin 'amator' — a lover — rooted in 'amare,' to love. The word kept its loving heart even in English: an amateur was first someone who did a thing purely out of devotion to it, long before the sense curdled into 'unskilled' or 'not quite serious.' The shift says more about how we treat love than about the word itself.
- origin
- from latin amator, lover, not loser
- olympics rule
- banned pros until 1986, then quietly gave up
- paradox
- often more skilled than the pros who mock them
- modern twist
- internet turned amateurs into unpaid professionals