Thank you for that lovely and thoughtful perspective Bloom! You're right, there are so many ways that comment could land and you've succeeded in making me think about it in a different way. Some people mean it sincerely because they love to write and they're not getting paid, other people mean it as a form of elitism because they're angry their "superior" work isn't generating the profits they believe they deserve. I'd like to see writers make more than they do, but we don't live in a society that values creative expression. In our world you make a lot more money hurting people than you do from developing yourself as an artist. I'd like to change that, but perhaps I didn't express myself as clearly as I could have in this article. Thanks for your comment!