Being more of a parent naturally makes you less of a professional, just like electrifying the developing world necessarily involves harming the environment. Such bucketing seeks to place each part of an apparent trade-off into its own, separate category, allowing us to simplify the world by putting things into tidy, clearly defined groups. The reasoning goes that it’s futile to mix the different buckets. Like oil and water, they’ll naturally separate, no matter how hard we try to prevent it.
