No, it's a means and not an end at all. The goal is to produce the best work you can do, but the fact that working people can turn it into a sustainable business greatly expands who can participate.

Someone with a Youtube channel with say 200k subscribers today can make about 2k-4k per month. At the inconvenience of a bunch of ads or sponsors people who could have never done creative work can do it full time now and actually be rewarded for their work.