What do you think the future is for professionals?<p>I&#x27;ve noticed that there is an awful lot of very-high-quality content being produced for free, Worm and Shadows of Limelight are better than most published fiction, but are free and the authors seem uninterested in anything more than Patreon donations. As making art is something people enjoy and there are no bottlenecks to distribution, maybe we should expect there to be fewer professional artists and vast entertainment niches filled by popular amateur or part-time artists.<p>I sort of imagine a world where one can have millions of readers and still can&#x27;t be a pro - but probably Patreon would pay a living wage after that point.