exactly. the ideal system would be lots of artists making middle-class salaries (e.g. $35k - $90k) and producing content meaningful to smaller groups, but we h

exactly. the ideal system would be lots of artists making middle-class salaries (e.g. $35k - $90k) and producing content meaningful to smaller groups, but we have a handful of multi-millionaires making prurient content and local artists getting next to nothing. it's really prescient of the larger loss of the middle class. If only people wouldn't spend money on cheesy, raunchy music and distribute their spending more evenly to smaller-time, more interesting artists... but I don't know how to raise the level of discourse around that. I would love to hear a wider variety of music on the radio!