"saved" = streaming model, which, given the layers of brokerage, provide nearly no money to artists popular enough to generate millions of streams/listens. The

"saved" = streaming model, which, given the layers of brokerage, provide nearly no money to artists popular enough to generate millions of streams/listens. The tech world has colonized a succession of industries, from publishing, to music, and the net result is dead industries whose shells serve as mere promotional funnels for the illusory big gig in the sky in which the artist will make their money, despite the fact that said artist makes quiet music people like to listen to in their homes and will never likely be able to pull off large concerts. Per the commenter below "there's loads of talent, let them eat cake", well friend, I like good music made by people who cared enough to study, play multiple instruments fluently, collaborate with others, and sometimes form large ensembles that are economically unfeasible. Where is big band? there is a reason bebop and rock and later singular dj's took over = simple event economics... Meanwhile, the elephant in the room is how our industry preaches lovely lies about freedom and how other peoples products should be free, while our vampire industrial sector sucks the remaining blood from various markets we first destabilized and weakened. I know that I certainly participated in plenty of music sharing (and creation) and I am not denying the positive benefits of being able to find loads of different music through the magic of text searches, but simply urging my fellow tech zealots to back the XYZ up a bit and aknowledge the absolutely devastating effect we have had. Spotify, incidentally, is one of the worst offenders in treating the artists poorly, compared to something like Bandcamp, let's say.