I think there's kind of a "Water flows downhill towards the sea" rule that anything fun eventually gets the fun sucked out in a race to the bottom. If somethin

I think there's kind of a "Water flows downhill towards the sea" rule that anything fun eventually gets the fun sucked out in a race to the bottom. If something is fun, then people will take a pay cut to do it, until it's either not fun or not a career. Or both. Look at indie game dev - You can't give games away. It takes serious skill to make a game that's worth the cost of the player's time to launch it.