You also had someone providing for you and covering all of your costs. Once you leave the carefree comforts of childhood and join the rat race the rules change.

Ones motivation need not change. “Do what you love and the money will follow” is not universally true, but it is pretty damn true for learning and making software.

What's your point? The discussion we're having is whether anyone would be a programmer if they weren't getting paid well. Clearly many people would.

I love art and music. I'm pretty skilled in a variety of those fields. The reason I don't do them is because programming pays extraordinarily better and can let me have a more relaxed and enjoyable lifestyle as opposed to living in garbage tier slums.

What does that have to do with anything?

I think from the responses you've had to your comment you've now seen that you're in a minority here.