Anybody with feet can run around a track. So athletics has, in
that sense, a low barrier to entry. That doesn't make them
Usain Bolt.
It's an interesting look past the mystification of how
capitalism is claimed to work. Behind the curtain it is unable
or unwilling to find a way to sustain the existences of the
producers of goods that the public desires. Instead it relies
on disposability. Burn a part out (and many do; it's
particularly a problem among romance writers -- and on through
Hollywood, the porn industry, et cetera) and replace. Rinse
and repeat.
The question becomes: is it a system instated by humans and
controlled by humans, or a system that has come to control
humans, a meta system, global capital as a type of planet-wide
intelligence analogous to an ant colony or the cells in
an individual body, bent on its perpetuation at the necessary
cost of any of those individual components.
It's an interesting system to discuss in the hypothetical. The
genre, however, changes when or if one realizes the part you
are in such a system as it exits. Of course, we all think
we're special. There's always a war going on around us, but
there isn't a bullet out there with my name on it; those
shells rip others to pieces, not me.
Which, circling back, is why we need 'content creators'. We
need Lovecrafts to distract us from the cosmic horror of
ourselves and what we label reality.