The End of Music
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Why worry about the big bad corporations and their cashing in on artistry (never mind all of the corporations building the equipment that many of these so called outsiders need and use)? It will only allow the next wave of outsiders to gain footing—intentionally or not. You can’t possibly believe that in the history of pop music this establishment hasn’t been a perfect setup for someone else to come along and supposedly shake up the establishment?
You really veered off into extreme levels of ridiculousness when analyzing things to the point that you claimed “members will tire of competing in a hostile environment, and stop producing music completely.” Uh oh, look out! The end of music is coming because I can’t make money off of it! And then you back that statement up by stating that the audience wants a variety of things that have little or nothing to do with music. Role models? Wacky fashion tips? It sounds like you’re worried that in the internet era the corporate swindle is clearly obvious to any and everyone and those concepts are no longer easily fit into a profiteering model. Why is that? Do you really think that bars will ever run out of musicians to book on a Monday night?
To be more cynical, why is music the focus of this and not something else like poetry (be a battle rapper or else starve!), snowboarding, or pottery. Same concept, but no one bats an eye at how you can actually make pottery and do nothing but lose money or spend real job money on it, or you can get picked up by a chain for mass production.
