Shhhh.... you're divulging the dark secret of the art world. The art ninjas may come for you. Yes, absolutely. When you're a young working artist in NYC, your peers all seem poor. It's NY--everyone struggles. After a few years you find out that only a handful of you actually are playing for keeps. The rest are trust fund babies. They walk around all scruffy in their Carhaart gear, but they don't actually have day jobs. The galleries take them on because of connections, and their parents, their parents family, friends, and colleagues are the ones behind all the red dots next to the labels in the gallery.