Re:Today’s creator economy was built on subscribers and patr...
by gumby on Monday March 28, 2022 @06:19PM
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> I don't want to see what comes next. It's been a continuous negative slide for as long as I've been alive.
Opera, orchestras, chamber music, the “big band” period, and the 1950s-1990s “music industry” were all products of their respective times’ technological and economic structure, which some people learned to exploit and others did not. Those exploitation models were just passing artifacts.
You just see a particular point in time, a business model, and the life of the then winners and draw a conclusion from that.
I don’t know what the future may be but it is most certainly not a return to any status quo ante. But I do know that apart from a minuscule fraction of people, nobody in “music” (however it was described at a given time) ever made much, if any living from it.
Opera, orchestras, chamber music, the “big band” period, and the 1950s-1990s “music industry” were all products of their respective times’ technological and economic structure, which some people learned to exploit and others did not. Those exploitation models were just passing artifacts.
You just see a particular point in time, a business model, and the life of the then winners and draw a conclusion from that.
I don’t know what the future may be but it is most certainly not a return to any status quo ante. But I do know that apart from a minuscule fraction of people, nobody in “music” (however it was described at a given time) ever made much, if any living from it.