Would you rather live in a world where we don't have things like Dwarf Fortress? Their passion has been the game, as they understood it, they weren't able to make it and have health insurance (as I recall from the documentary, there were some issues getting remote jobs, and health insurance out of pocket is apparently prohibitively expensive in the USA).
> Would you rather live in a world where we don't have things like Dwarf Fortress?
1. we do have Dwarf Fortress.
2. It's not our collective responsibility to finance people who want to make art
I'm not blaming the system because it's not the limiting factor here. They did not prioritize their financial security so why should society do it instead? They have all the tools to finance their lives yet opted not to. They learned this themselves and corrected it when they realized it was unsustainable. The worst possible scenario is subsidizing their previous lifestyle.
Insurance not covering medically necessary procedures and hospitals charging exorbitant prices is a problem, not this.
Why are you blaming them and not the system?