You may only get 3 cents in the same time period if no one likes your music enough to listen to it. You don't just get to throw anything up there and expect to

You may only get 3 cents in the same time period if no one likes your music enough to listen to it. You don't just get to throw anything up there and expect to get the same $250M. Certainly you understand that they don't pay by time period, right? Value to them comes from time spent actually consuming the content and how much they can make inserting ads during that time or getting new subscribers to avoid the number of ads. Maybe musicians are getting a bad deal, and I'm no longer fan of JRE either... but your argument is clearly so off-base.