Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
Daojoan ("Joan Westenberg") wrote:
We have conditioned ourselves to believe that artists, musicians, writers, inventors and creators must orient themselves as entrepreneurial go-getters - monetising their work into startups, small businesses or branded products.
The myth of the creator-entrepreneur radically narrows the complex motivations of creativity and pressures creators to view financial success as the highest marker of their worth.
https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/the-dangerous-myth-of-the-creator-entrepreneur