Ignoring the 425M free users (where ad revenue comes in), given that Spotify has 250M paying users, that it translates to $3.33/month/user being paid to the mus

Ignoring the 425M free users (where ad revenue comes in), given that Spotify has 250M paying users, that it translates to $3.33/month/user being paid to the music industry. This isn't a lot. And in maybe a more benevolent world where automatic tipping a coffee's amount of money to a weighted-distribution of your favorite music artists every month is a thing (think: one dropping change money into the hat / empty guitar box of a performing street music artist), that we could not only have way better open music clients but also have this $3.33/month go directly to the artists. This is predicated on benevolence, as in this case music will be free to download in the first place.