[user_named]

Creative work doesn't pay well <-> Creative work doesn't pay well because people who are competing for the jobs don't need to make money off their job

[toto444]

When you don't need to make money off your artistic project, you're free to do what pleases you not what pleases others/businessmen/the platform algorithm.

[quesera]

> Creative work doesn't pay well ...

Of course, creative work does pay well. It just has to be creative in serving a commercial goal.

The stereotypical HN reader is a creative worker.