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How about this. Take away all the musicians and their music and see what Spotify and all its software developers are worth by themselves. Now do the opposite.
by CPLX 2y ago
How about this. Take away all the musicians and their music and see what Spotify and all its software developers are worth by themselves.
Now do the opposite.
Figured it out yet?
Music is one of the most universal and important things in our culture. People define themselves and their identity with it, and most certainly value it and will pay for it.
How we structure our economic systems determines if it’s “cheap” or not and who gets the profits from it. It’s certainly not an intrinsic quality.
- largelady97 2y agoSociety is growing out of all that egotistic nonsense. We have built a large corpus of music. We don't need no more music. That problem has been solved. That area has been explored. All the good chord progressions, songs, sounds have been found and are in the corpus. It is quite clear musicians are no longer needed or wanted.
- CPLX 2y agoPerhaps there’s some sort of emerging trend in the usual community of rapacious sociopathic nerds out in San Mateo County that will soon take over the world but last I checked new music still fills stadiums. Not to mention that the most successful and fastest growing digital network of the current generation was built on the back of people dancing to recorded music, almost exclusively newly created music.