Oh my, thank you for putting this often unspoken issue into words so eloquently and clearly!! I have several drafts that say something similar but none nearly so well. We all need to say this and act upon this at every opportunity for some reason it's the reality too rarely acknowledged.
You're welcome, Ruth! I've been around creative people my whole life and feel most of them are indeed old souls. Money isn't important to many of them but it pains me to see how so many struggle needlessly.
Money isn't the reason creative people create but without it, they become depleted, drained and in despair which is lose-lose. Whereas when they are valued it's win-win.
I'd also like to note that somehow when creatives address being paid, valued etc... there's this idea that they are greedy. Lol, it's so ludicrous just as the comic shows. No one becomes a writer or artist for greedy reasons, but without currency, we simply can't continue making it at the level that brings mastery and real value!
So true. I tend to look at money as energy, a means to make dreams physical reality and nothing more.