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> 2) Although many professionals enjoy their work, they still expect to be
> paid.
  Isn't being paid the difference between "professional" and "amateur"?
The "starving artist" genius programmer is certainly a romantic notion,
but even starving artists have to waste valuable time working as waiters
or something to pay the rent.  Of course one could make an argument that
programs, like paintings or music, are what the economists call "public
goods" which will only be supplied adequately if the government (through
DoD funding of universities perhaps?) pays for it...