>That's like saying as the price of circular saws drop in price, hand made furniture becomes cheaper. >You're just going to end up with a bunch of sloppy table

>That's like saying as the price of circular saws drop in price, hand made furniture becomes cheaper. >You're just going to end up with a bunch of sloppy tables. Well, yes, and that's how IKEA and mass production in general made many people that would be making furniture out of the job. Even in tailor-made stuff good cheap tools does make work of skilled maker far quicker. And you can get more people trying to get into that if the tools are cheap. Hardware is cheap, software is free/near free so there is far more people trying, when you no longer need to spend small car worth of money just to say play electronic music > People still want to listen to quality music from artists who have years of practice and experience. You can't reliably get years of experience unless you're getting paid to do it. Most musicians got that by playing in garage bands and doing concerts. And many of them did it entirely for free, out of passion, till they were good enough, far before fancy computers were in everyone's pockets. > The counter argument is trash music will just be the norm. It is the norm far before Spotify happened I'm afraid