[Levitz]

What does "making sense" mean in this scenario? Many lines of work follow that pattern.

Composers, designers, programmers, writers... What would be the equivalent for any of these? Working in real time?

[matheusmoreira]

All creators should endeavor to get paid before they create.

The labor of creation is extremely valuable but once created the resulting data will be in infinite supply and this will drive its price down to zero. Therefore creators only have the necessary leverage before the data exists.