What's cultural and what's profitable don't always overlap, so the question is which you want to preserve. If I single out musicians - where I am on the west o

What's cultural and what's profitable don't always overlap, so the question is which you want to preserve. If I single out musicians - where I am on the west of Ireland, the cultural impact largely comes from street buskers and trad sessions in small pubs - not the profitable acts filling a stadium once every 5 years. Given that the local scene is a honeypot for tourists, where as stage tours breezing through town probably extract more than they bring, it might actually be an overall profitable investment - even if the individual artists aren't.