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Of the 10 recognized "complexes", if not inferiority you'd probably call what you feel either part of the Guilt Complex spectrum or the Dependancy Complex spectrum. Creative types are usually treated as circular pegs living in society's square holes, so there's an "outsider" element, where stability is hard to come by yet you pursue the lifestyle anyway. That might lead to feelings of "unworthiness" (guilt complex) or perhaps a dependancy on capitalism / the mainstream in its rawest form, where you don't have a steady job so you're strategizing for money at all times. You don't feel inferior to those more financially stable (in fact you probably feel superior as you're freer, in a sense, and making it work) but you do recognize how much you depend on THEM to be stable and be able to afford you.

Anywho, don't piss in their faces!

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