1) ? ..... ~$52,000/year ? 2) ~5% of SAG's 122,000 membership earn more than $75,000 a year, according to ...... (Google). A lot of "starving artists" indeed.
3d printing is a game changer for sure. And it's primary uses on the metal side happen to be the examples I stated. He will have to adapt as it becomes more prevalent but at least now he's thinking about education as a tool to improve his quality of life.
The avg income is actually 5k a year for all members. That's right, 5k a year. In order to get a mean that low you have to include the failures, and that was my point. A lot of the data that the media likes to showcase out there only includes the winners while they compare that to the rest of society which of course includes all the losers. That's today's lesson in data analysis.
I was quick to dismiss weird theories when I was younger. After living for a while you notice many of the previous theories become fact. Schopenhauer said it best. All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.