If it's not tied to your income, I agree. But I can't imagine the stress when your readership numbers determine whether there's food on the table or not.
I personally think that this would almost never the case because of the extremely skewed distribution of income in the sector. Almost everyone will be making so much less that it’s never even possible that you would be able to pay for dinner with your income and a few are making so much more that it’s never a question if dinner will be paid or not.