I participated in a workshop recently led by Alberta writer, editor, and my library's Writer-in-Residence, Kimmy Beach. The four-week workshop was her take on understanding the world of writing. She's a published author with an actual publisher, not self-published. Even then, the biggest takeaway from the workshop was that very few people make decent money writing. Even writers like Beach, with a brick-and-mortar publisher, have only made a few thousand dollars selling her books.
This brings me to my point: the majority of writers don't write to make money. It's an almost inconceivable passion to create, akin to any of the myriad of craft and artistic expressions humans find pleasurable. American poet and author Sylvia Plath has said, "Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences." That's really all modern writing is. I love, and I live, and I write about it. Hopefully, someone will read what I write and find some pleasure in the endeavour.