> the value of my work does not lie in the amount of money that can be gotten in exchange for it.

What do you think money is?

It's a rough proxy approximation for value. So yes, the amount of money you can get for your work is rough approximation of its value.

You can also have a precious pet rock that you personally hold very dear and well "valueable" - but valuable to nobody but you only. So realistically it has zero value to everyone else.

If you don't care about creating value, you don't care about people.

As, ultimately, it costs money to care for people, and if you don't have it - all you have are prayers and best wishes, and you functionally can't help anyone.

> What do you think money is? It's a rough proxy approximation for value.

Money is an abstraction, not an approximation. There is not of necessity any real basis for any price that has ever been attached to any product or service, ever. Money is an artificial mechanism by which we exchange debt owed by the issuing state that itself also has no real basis.

> If you don't care about creating value, you don't care about people.

On this we agree, but, of course, my point was that when I say "value" I don't mean monetary value. A person's value is intangible, and the value of their works (whatever those may be) is derived entirely from the relationship formed between the artist and their context and the connection from this relationship to whoever wishes to partake of the art.

> As, ultimately, it costs money to care for people, and if you don't have it - all you have are prayers and best wishes, and you functionally can't help anyone.

What a woefully capitalistic perspective. I wish the best of luck to you and your shareholders.