It’s easy to get carried away by high-falluting ideals about the arts, but the biological fact is that we all have to eat. The link below explores the inequalities of incomes, even among acknowledged, prize-winning writers, and how there are hardly any middle-earning authors, in the tens-of-thousands bracket – everyone is either in the very wealthy range or having to juggle other jobs. In short, when art and capitalism meet, art ends off the worse.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/19/midlist-author-kerry-hudson-louise-candlish