When we were doing our first ‘creative’ endeavours in high school–essays, paintings, poems–there was a large focus from the very beginning on originality. We were told to try and be original, discouraged from copying, and rewarded for uniqueness, even in its most basic forms.
We often judge a fair price for something based on the lowest we could pay for it. Anything above that is premium and must come with justification.
I started out on the web like most front-end devs: fiddling around. The web is beautiful because the front-end is open source by default–take any web page, and with a browser and notepad, you can take it apart and rebuild it.