But here's where we might diverge: I don't believe that art is in the medium itself. A lawyer can be artistic in their supposedly unartistic craft. Someone practicing 'creative writing' can be spurring the act from a formulaic, artless decrepit pit.
What argue is not that people don't want to be artist, but rather that this is precisely what people want. To express themselves through their thoughts, feelings, actions, and ultimately impact. They've just been duped into thinking that that comes from the medium. Things most people easily associate with 'artistic' like music, making.
In your example of white lab coats and excel sheets you're
strawman
ning a craft by
caricaturizing
the mechanical actions. You're purposefully not seeing that there is a purpose to it. Just like I could caricaturize a writers' craft as boring because all they do is scribble ink onto paper of tap a keyboard.
PS this is not to say all finance people or lawyers or artistic in their work. Most of them are not. But that's no different than most artists (writers, painters, musicians, etc).
