Competition, survival, and polarity

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There are plenty of people like authors and videogame programmers who become millionaires just by putting out their own creativity.

It often seems like shoving someone out of the way is the only way to success but that's just the way it looks on the surface.

I think the situation in this example is more complicated than you think. For every millionaire game developer there are thousands of programmers, writers, QA technicians, game testers, marketing associates, community developers, etc. who may be just barely making ends meet. And then even further down the ladder there are the people working in the factories that produce the hardware components required to run the game and the mines / refineries that produce the material for those components (labor usually exported to the third world) making poverty wages.

Not to mention all the other game developers who don't hit the big times and are unable to support themselves through creative work in a competitive market.