Great subject Fluxxy.
I agree the prospect of a paycheck is what drives us all to one degree or another. The creative arts are no different than any other corporate venture with one very large exception. A person in their creative prime outputting what their soul is feeling is pure beauty, a gift to us all.
Some will later choose to profit monetarily from their creation or had planned on it from the onset. I can’t blame them.

Technical creativity is no different than creating music, paintings or cinematics.
Creating games be it board, arcade, console or PC can be as painstaking and artful as using a canvass and paint.
The utensils have matured but the human condition is the same.
When we feel pain and desperation we produce a game like Grand theft or a painting like A starry Night. when we feel sexy and amorous we choose to design lingerie, paint ballerinas like Degas, or choose to shake our moneymaker on MTV.

Yes the Entertainment industry IN AMERICA is pushing the limits because we’ve made it so Taboo. Our natural urges and desires are what make us human. Americans are lost and confused. If we stopped judging our fellow mans morality and instead embraced him, loved him and forgave him there would be no envelope to push, no taboo.