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Re:The Death of the Middle-Class Musician by pydry on Sunday June 29, 2025 @05:55PM (#44416825)
It'd probably be a bit less winner-takes-all without the capitalist dynamics that make it such.
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Re:The Death of the Middle-Class Musician by sien on Sunday June 29, 2025 @07:57PM (#44417754)
The technology plays a huge role.

Why watch local soccer in most of the world when you can watch the Champions League on the internet ?

In the Soviet Union people were watching Dynamo and Lokomotiv on TV rather than going to local games too.

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Re:The Death of the Middle-Class Musician by peab on Monday June 30, 2025 @10:16AM (#44423588)
I don't think the capitalist dynamic have as much of an impact as the technology and social factors.

Tech allows distribution, and the social factors is people want to listen to what's popular

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