I don't know why people haven't realized, after centuries upon centuries of people trying to live off of "art," that very few people can do it successfully, hence the term "starving artist," and the VAST majority of those that do become successful(while alive, at least) are either privileged in a specific way(not in an identitarian sense, more like people praise Monet's painting of his view of "nature" when he specifically had gardens arranged by people he paid pittances to look as they did when he painted them until they looked the way he thought was perfect), were part of something much bigger than themselves and didn't even get the biggest piece of the pie(any non-independent musician, any Youtuber/Twitch streamer that makes most of their money off sponsorships and ad revenue, not direct contributions), heavily exploited the labor of others or flat out stole almost verbatim from others, or in very rare cases, just managed to strike it EXTREMELY lucky.
