No, the fundamental problem is not Pareto / power law. The fundamental problem is simply a huge supply of musicians. There's only 8bln total revenue / year in t

No, the fundamental problem is not Pareto / power law. The fundamental problem is simply a huge supply of musicians. There's only 8bln total revenue / year in total to be divided. That's just not much for more than a million artists, even without any other middle men. No change in distribution will change the fact that only a small fraction of the artists can hope to make a living from it.