[fishtoaster]

It's a fun, upbeat article, but as an actual case, I think it falls down here:

> Our abundance of weirdos creates diversity not only in supply, but also in demand.

That's certainly true (imo), but the author seems to implicitly expect the supply and demand to match up and I'm pretty thoroughly convinced that they do not.

Thinking narrowly about jobs, there are a lot more people that want to be artists than people that want to buy art, causing art to be a pretty hard industry to make a living in. This is equally true of any other niche where there are X people wanting it and Y people providing it: there's no reason to expect those to be equal and, as it turns out, they rarely are.

[pdonis]

> Thinking narrowly about jobs, there are a lot more people that want to be artists than people that want to buy art, causing art to be a pretty hard industry to make a living in.

The article does not say that your place has to be your job. Indeed, it gives examples to the contrary, such as the Breakup Whisperer.

[afpx]

Yet, I go on art business forums, and businesses seems to be booming. It’s surprising to me how many profitable niche art genres there are.

My guess is that many people (myself included) don’t know how to find a market, align themselves to the market and advertise. There are also a lot of people who ‘want to do their own thing’ and focus on making art that no one else wants.

There are a lot of people in the world with very specific interests and lots of disposable income.