If you can find people that do months of work for 500 in Denmark of all places then clearly this activity is understood to be a high status signal not a busines

If you can find people that do months of work for 500 in Denmark of all places then clearly this activity is understood to be a high status signal not a business opportunity. People are doing it for recognition or some vague notion of arriving as an artist. You can earn that in a week as a waiter