[ekianjo]

> that if author cannot live of what they create, they, for the most part, won't be able to continue creating.

In which fantasy world do most authors live from their royalty fees? The large, vast majority does not.

[debugnik]

So they don't deserve trying? The same goes for pretty much every publishing endeavour: Success follows the power law, so what?

[ekianjo]

No you are missing the point. Any author with two working brain cells know that writing is not for making money.

[debugnik]

Okay then, so they shouldn't have extra income streams from their passion projects because they won't live exclusively from them anyway. Is that it?