> Creative people don't have motivation to produce if they can't make a living out of it.

I challenge you to ask 10 creative people in your life if they would stop doing whatever it is they do if they had a billion dollars.

v9v 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Would they do what they do if they had zero dollars?

	▲	komali2 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> Would they do what they do if they had zero dollars? No, probably not. Isn't it a shame we live in a world where we have the technology to automate all meaningful production, but people still need to justify their existence through often meaningless labor? That said, I know artists that make the bare minimum to survive, on purpose, so they have more time to focus on art.
	▲	nani8ot 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yes, as long as they have enough to survive, people generally have some free time. I know someone who's living paycheck to paycheck and they make music as a hobby. Obviously, if you have to work 16 hours a day to survive they wouldn't do it – or at least they wouldn't have the capacity to share it.

The desire to create something does not seem like an immutable characteristic.