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Honestly from this article nobody comes off looking great: there are musicians refusing to accept fiscal reality on one side, and management acting in bad faith

• bsder 4y ago
  > there are musicians refusing to accept fiscal reality on one side In what way? The article specifically cites Lubbock (a significantly smaller city) as managing to handle paying their musicians and being fiscally solvent. This doesn't seem to be an unsolvable problem yet the current Board of Directors can't seem to pull it off. Let it go bankrupt. Surely someone will want to put a symphony together and they can avoid all the baggage. Or not. And that will say something as well, no?
• hulitu 4y ago
  > there are musicians refusing to accept fiscal reality on one side Maybe the "fiscal reality" is that they can use this time to do better things which maybe are also paid better.
  • dorchadas 4y ago
    What constitutes a "better thing"? Anything that pays better? Is working in ad tech somehow "better" than being a musician? I think it shows the priorities of our society, and I think that's part of the problem (if you can't make money, you don't deserve to exist)
• CobrastanJorji 4y ago
  I don't think the musicians come off looking bad. They were skilled employees at a business. The business decided to substantially cut half the employees' salaries from $36,000 to $24,000 and demote the other half to part time workers making only about $10k per year. The employees did not accept this. Nothing about that speaks ill of the employees.
• wiz21c 4y ago
  > refusing to accept fiscal reality How far will you accept fiscal reality ?
• Veen 4y ago
  The musicians are keenly aware of fiscal reality, namely their ability to pay rent and bills if they had accepted the offer.