It si not my post but
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The idea that you can make a living of your art is plain lunacy simply because competition is too high and customer base is very small.
And this is good to so em extent.

At this day anyone can just download some 3d software and start pumping out art of any kind.
what you really need most is to build your name and give freebies for maybe a year or two until someone will even get aware about your existence and then when you get people hooked you declare that they are going to pay or fuck off.

Yes many of those artists are just single people who do it as a side hustle to make few extra pennies.
But many of thsoe people are asholes for not releasing ther work into public domain and generally not interacting with public in any way besides posting their spam and it is nothing wrong in harming an asshole.

Finally yes getting stuff for free is what turns own as it is not that expensive to pay 5$ or even less. But it is the matter of principle not to pay.
I for example would agree to do amount of work which is worth 50$ but I refuse to pay 5$ because paying is not fun at all and it feels bad.
the moment when you enter relationships where money is involved you naturally become enemies where the goal is to rip each other.


another point about caring is not that pirates care about artists, pirates care about each other and their own fans and their own community.
pirate is not that different from artist just rather than making his own stuff he downloads someones else and post it as his own.

Artist can eliminate that step if he wants if he agrees to do the job of the pirate and publish his stuff himself that way acquiring fans among pirates.