Fortunately, I have a full-time job which pays the bills. Poetry does not, I believe pay the bills for the overwhelming majority of those engaged in composing it. Ultimately I write for the love of writing. I am also delighted when readers tell me how my work touched them.
K Morris - Poet 
Grim, for sure.
And it doesn’t help when you have scammers out there claiming that, if you publish with them, you will make oodles of cash, (but not before paying a tidy sum to said “publisher”) for the privilege of publishing with them …
That’s really the worst of it. Those scammers are despicable.
They are indeed.