Unfortunately this HN forum is not conducive to long exchanges. (I probably won't read further replies as they slip off the bottom of my workflow here). I appr

Unfortunately this HN forum is not conducive to long exchanges. (I probably won't read further replies as they slip off the bottom of my workflow here). I appreciate your reply and willingness to have a good banter. Our difference is that "artists" are driven by complex psychological and spiritual motives, way beyond money, which is a necessary but insufficient component of the artistic life. Some commenters don't like it when I say you're an accomplished craftsman but not a "real" artist if your preoccupation is with money. I can understand why that hurts, especially if one is besieged by brutal, empty capitalism and looming AI predating on your soul. But I stand by this. And most of Art-history and the philosophy of art bears me out. And my point is that the artist who sacrifices (prostitutes) themselves on that altar of anomie and alienation is an accomplice in their misery - however strong the need to "put bread on the table". We are more than this.