That's globalization and, in the "intellectual property" area: 1) the ability to record & duplicate things in the first place—being able to play the piano toler

That's globalization and, in the "intellectual property" area: 1) the ability to record & duplicate things in the first place—being able to play the piano tolerably well is worth basically nothing now, socially or commercially, which wasn't the case before radio & recorded music became common, for example, and 2) ever-decreasing costs of duplication. Vonnegut treated of this in more than one of his books. He seemed to regard the effect as likely more socially destructive than it was net-beneficial.