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Re:The Greatest Wealth Transfer in History Is Here, with Fam... by Turing_Machine on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @07:29AM (#35960311)
Maybe instead we could, e.g., force streaming services to play an equal number of songs from every musician (or imagined musician), regardless of talent. Want to listen to Bach? Okay, but you have to listen to five hundred songs from untalented randos before hearing a Bach piece.

That would be "fair", yes?

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Re:The Greatest Wealth Transfer in History Is Here, with Fam... by tylerhou on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @03:38PM (#35966688)
You’re strawmanning me. It would be better to let people stream songs by whatever artist they want. Then the fair thing to do is to levy progressively higher taxes on more popular/profitable artists to redistribute money to those who were not born as talented or motivated.
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