More seriously, I'd like to think you're in a bubble. Hustle culture is strong in tech, and especially here on HN. On the other hand, my mom and mom-in-law are both artists who have been variously pushed towards selling their work, increasing volume, yada yada. Even my kid, at 5 years old, is all about the money -- any time he learns about something new (how is pepper made), he wants to scale it up and sell it at volume (it's just a plant? let's start a pepper farm and sell pepper for a million dollars!). None of his parents think like that, so we're left wondering where that's coming from.
More seriously, I'd like to think you're in a bubble. Hustle culture is strong in tech, and especially here on HN. On the other hand, my mom and mom-in-law are both artists who have been variously pushed towards selling their work, increasing volume, yada yada. Even my kid, at 5 years old, is all about the money -- any time he learns about something new (how is pepper made), he wants to scale it up and sell it at volume (it's just a plant? let's start a pepper farm and sell pepper for a million dollars!). None of his parents think like that, so we're left wondering where that's coming from.