> I hear similar from professional clothing photographers who find that even if they want to support the human models
Nobody bans them from paying those models some kind of aid. Oh, they mean they want to support them with other people's money. Yeah that's not so easy.
They want to get paid enough to pay human models.
Stops being "other people's money" once they get paid.
Get paid enough by who and for what reason? Do they realize that the money has to come from someone who decides to pay it out of their own free will?