I'm not sure that has anything to with the algorithm described in the blog post. I posted it because it's a popular, often-referenced example for this type of p

I'm not sure that has anything to with the algorithm described in the blog post. I posted it because it's a popular, often-referenced example for this type of problem. The problem exists outside of Spotify, in any music player. And I believe that back when this was written, Spotify was paying the same amount of money for all streams, as it was way before the whole problem with people streaming white noise to launder money arose that they currently try to combat by essentially not paying artists with little exposure at all.