Anybody can tell you anything at any given moment. Believe someone’s actions over their words.
The work is the hardest thing to do, taking credit for that work is the easiest.
A “Producer/Worker” believes that they are doing something, but they are in state of disbelief as to what they are accomplishing.
If you are working for someone else (and not with) you are an employee. Employees work the land and (hopefully) get paid for it. There is no residual income in being an employee.
Being an employee or “worker” is not a guaranteed life time job. Having a job is because at the price level that the employer is willing to pay, you are the most qualified candidate that they know of that is willing to work.
It’s the same thing in entrepreneurship or in the contractor economy. As long as someone is willing to pay the price you charge, you will have a customer. Even if you charge nothing, you still have to compete for your consumer’s time.
In a global economy you do not need everyone to like you to be successful, you just need three out of every one hundred people you encounter to give you a portion of their time.
Customers do not owe you their time (which can also be combined with their money), you have to earn every second you get from them.
These stakes are even more the case in entertainment. If you can’t explain to someone why they are giving something their time, then you shouldn’t be putting it in front of them.
As a “producer” becomes a producer and then a veteran producer, that individual learns more about stakes and what to be produced from previous projects.
Technical producers are hard to find. Technology (or the ability to create within a set time for Visual/performance artists) changes rapidly and it’s important for technical producers to be always learning and adapting to new horizons/challenges.
Technical producers tend to be more expensive to hire because their work is commodifiable and usually these technical producers are known, specialized training or even a brand.
Technical producers that have an academic background to further influence their work is even rarer to find. This is because those technical producers are always in pursuit of knowledge and thus do not have time for other endeavors.