There is no such thing as "starving artist", artist who is good and isn't afraid of work won't have a problem finding a job. The thing that do exist is "greedily hungry" people, yes people, not artists. Someone who downloaded 3d model, opened it in native software, hit render button, and than that same archive upload here with those "just hit render button" renders and sell that for 5$ (ok some of them sell for 100$ in order to look legit) is not an artist, matter of fact very far from it. Because of this type of people who upload those models usually on average 10-50 daily and who are majority here on CGT, life here on CGT is/can be hard for legit artist because it's imposible to cope with it, and if someone is expecting to earn money (not to say living) just from selling on CGT, that will make him starve, which is his/hers own fault. I have spoked with some of the biggest names here, and they told me that, if they didn't started their business long time ago, and if they don't have their regular customers base they won't have any chance to grow their business here because of nowdays "unnecessary" competition. So when it comes to CGT (I can't comment on anything else because author of the topic didn't mentioned anything) everyone here have problems, but that doesn't mean that anyone should give up their skills and started doing something else, matter of fact skills should never be thrown away, you never know where it can become useful, and please remove that free model, the last thing you and everyone else here need is someone selling your very good model for 2$-5$.