He didn't say anything about what ought to be. Rather, just an observation that based on the last few hundred years, making a living off your art is simply not

He didn't say anything about what ought to be. Rather, just an observation that based on the last few hundred years, making a living off your art is simply not the "natural order" of things. This is relevant because a reversion to the mean (which you could argue this is) is not particularly shocking.