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Re:A brief history of why artists are no longer making a liv... by onetimemanytime on Friday March 22, 2019 @02:49AM (#19460144)
If Taylor Swift only gave concerts to hundreds of people at a time, she'd be poor too. Mozart never had studio deals or CD distribution, or endorsement deals--at least not in the global stage.
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Re:A brief history of why artists are no longer making a liv... by Ace17 on Friday March 22, 2019 @04:53AM (#19460618)
Yes.

But the point was that Mozart didn't need to be rich to do great music.

Whether he deserved to be rich is another question (more related to morale than economics).

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