It's very frustrating watching people make the "people should be compensated for their labour, so you shouldn't pirate things/should buy from my etsy" argument over and over again as if it'll somehow remove the difference between labour you did to make a product to sell for yourself and the labour you did for someone else in exchange for a wage.
One of these is you selling your labour to someone, which you wouldn't do if you weren't compensated, and the other is you putting labour into making something and hoping you'll be able to sell it at some point, with no guarantee that you actually will.
It's not a labour rights issue for someone to not buy the thing you made, it is a labour rights issue for someone to not pay you for the work they hired you to do.
These are fundamentally different things, and if you insist you're being exploited because people won't buy your things you indeed going to be accused of being ignorant and entitled.
(Incidentally many authors for example actually effectively are in the situation where they're being paid to make something for someone who will then go and reap all the profits from it and might even get the intellectual rights to it. But still direct their ire at people not buying stuff/unable to buy stuff rather than the people not paying them.)
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