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> they were undervalued for ages even before the digital age

Why are they? Why are teachers, nurses, policemen, etcetera undervalued?

I think this is because these jobs don't scale. You won't be able to show progression through time where you churn out 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, ... artworks/week. Nor can a schoolteacher aspire to teach 30, 100, 300, 1000 kids a year.

Our economic system is addicted to growth. S&P 500 must increase 4% a year or we're all doomed.

The ridiculousness of this in a post-peak-everything world is glaringly obvious.

I'm sorry you chose a form of human expression that is incompatible with infinite exponential economic growth.