I suppose that’s one way to justify not paying someone adequately for their labour: “Sorry, I can’t pay you for your work cuz I’m poor. But, like, I wanted it. Here’s a nickle. I’m sure you understand.”
What’s wild to me is that there was a time when buying an album or two of music a month would’ve been considered, you know, pretty reasonable. And that’s what you can get for the price of a Spotify subscription.
But folks are so inured to the idea of infinite music for practically nothing that of course musicians can’t make a living anymore.
And then I am supposed to feel bad for suggesting folks don’t participate in a broken system (or, at a bare minimum, admit they’re fine with it and stop pretending to be conflicted about the whole thing).
“Have you tried not being poor? No? How about forgoing a creature comfort to spite a big company in an ineffectual boycott?”
I suppose that’s one way to justify not paying someone adequately for their labour: “Sorry, I can’t pay you for your work cuz I’m poor. But, like, I wanted it. Here’s a nickle. I’m sure you understand.”
What’s wild to me is that there was a time when buying an album or two of music a month would’ve been considered, you know, pretty reasonable. And that’s what you can get for the price of a Spotify subscription.
But folks are so inured to the idea of infinite music for practically nothing that of course musicians can’t make a living anymore.
And then I am supposed to feel bad for suggesting folks don’t participate in a broken system (or, at a bare minimum, admit they’re fine with it and stop pretending to be conflicted about the whole thing).
Okay guy. Sure.