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Re:Taylor Swift: Don’t know what else to do by dehrmann on Friday November 15, 2019 @12:40AM (#21542520)
> I only have a vague idea of how the music industry works

It's like startups. Someone pays some 20-somethings to work themselves to death on their passion project. Most fail fast, some are notable, and a few are runaway successes.

Re:Taylor Swift: Don’t know what else to do by divbzero on Friday November 15, 2019 @12:50AM (#21542565)
However, the equity split differs substantially, as cyberferret describes in a sibling comment. [1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21542473