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Originally Posted by Coach

It's true, but the solution to that is built in with workers rights vs digital media distribution. The efficacy of the platform is sort of undeniable both for large artists and indie artists able to distribute their music globally for remarkably cheap, comparitvely. The payment/stream is what's out of whack, but there's not really a mechanism to change that outside of industry-wide protest removal, spearheaded by the biggest artists that can actually crash it out. And we can't pretend record companies have ever been treating artists fairly, even if you're purchasing their stuff individually, they're still only taking a minority slice unless they are a full indie thing. Which is really only made possible, initially, by platforms like Spotify.

Personally, I think the only hope is that artists who have made themselves large enough to change this (Swift, Beyonce, Jay Z, etc..) start making purposeful changes to/for the whole industry. It remains to be seen.

When have the industry heavyweights ever cared about the little guy? Why even would they?