It can be argued that it is a market dynamic, and (if you were to somehow control for everything else) the difference between the pay of an game programming job and an average white-collar boring office programming job is the market's value of that passion.
That comparison may coldly boil down something people feel very deeply about, but I'd also argue the market is already doing that.
That comparison may coldly boil down something people feel very deeply about, but I'd also argue the market is already doing that.