That’s called a substitute good. Every good has a substitute good. That doesn’t make it a commodity, words have meanings. The distinction is important. The o

That’s called a substitute good. Every good has a substitute good. That doesn’t make it a commodity, words have meanings. The distinction is important. The original thread here posited that music wasn’t a lucrative field because it’s an interchangeable commodity. That’s just flat wrong. It’s the opposite. It’s not lucrative because it’s very highly differentiated and the popularity follows a power law distribution and you’re probably not in the top echelon. But you could be. Which is why people try so hard. That’s an entirely different analysis.