A short spoken commentary arguing that earnings align with the amount of value one provides: creatives who feel underpaid are often not delivering enough perceived value to customers/community. The remedy is not demanding more pay but becoming the person who 'deserves' more by increasing the value offered.
You're making exactly as much as you think you deserve to be making. I think there's a huge thing within the creative community where people think they should be making more money, but you're paid directly in proportion with how much value you're providing to the community and to your customers. So if you're not getting paid more, it's fundamentally because you're not providing more value to the people that you're serving, otherwise they would want to pay you. And I think this rubs a lot of people the wrong way and it hurts their ego, but it's not about deserving more, it's about becoming the person who deserves more.
