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I mean, that isn't how it's always been though. Do you think writers don't sell their first novel, or that they don't improve through subsequent novels? Do you think that only painters who have been painting for decades ever sell paintings? Man, the only way people ever get in enough practice to become the best is if people like their early work enough to support them -- or if they're otherwise supported, by inheritance or whatever.

If you don't want to pay for it, that's totally cool. You can make that decision for yourself. I just take issue with the erroneous and damaging assertion that only the best of the best in any given field deserve compensation for their work. If your work adds value, through enjoyment or otherwise, then it's worth paying for.

Of course, it would be nice if we just didn't have to worry about the whole money thing and could just pursue whatever interested us without financial consideration, but that's not the world most of us live in.