This notion that it is up to each person to innovation in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.
If you can't sell to 1 in 1000, why market to a million?
Shame must be accepted to be effective.
Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.
Are you doing work worth doing, or are you just doing your job?
Piracy is not the problem, obscurity is.