Success hasn't got me yet

The starving artist mantra.   I dislike the tone of it.    It is not unlike the whining from the opposite end of the financially not -so -well- off spectrum ......the working broke.   They bust their ass all day and night , still have nothing and many blame the politicians they elect, or God, or Evil or corporations..      All in all, we all have the power to make the changes needed.    Keep trying.  Before you blame anyone for your lot in life....go look in the mirror.
As for the starving artist....as long as they accept that they may never have a commercially viable idea and are willing to be poor if that is the case, then that is a well adjusted individual.

I am kettle, and I, to,  have called the pot black.