TC: I dare say that not every speaker out there needs the money to pay a mortgage or tuition. That is an inaccurate statement.
I haven’t concluded my study of the correlation between mortgage payments and speeches in public, so I can’t comment on that yet. I can’t guarantee that all speakers haven’t paid their mortgages.
My point – which was pretty clear – was that public speaking is a job like any other, and the speaker is entitled to be paid.