Pretty sure 90% of the posters of the type at the top of the article are made for $0. I bet for $10 you could get real artists from non-Western countries to make a simple poster, but these days people would probably claim those $10 jobs and then have AI generate them anyway.

right, even worse... if you paid 5X that you'd still be getting whatever was the first idea that came to mind

You're easily in 10X territory to get something pretty basic with a round of feedback and maybe 50X to start to get something good

the low to mid range of any visual design market has essentially been destroyed