“Our society uses a distributional rule whose practical outcome is designed to land us at a good approximation of justice” “I cheated the distributional rule because doing so didn’t work an intrinsic injustice” “Friendo, that’s nonresponsive to the purpose of the rule.”
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Bull. Shit. Because the profit from the CD goes to the artist, not several intermediaries. Yeah, I am under no illusions that my favourites are doing amazingly, but they're still doing it after a decade so it can't be that bad.
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I like you, Arthur, but please believe me that I've hung out with the people I'm talking about. I knew they're not making massive amounts of money, but they're doing ok. That's my point. I find your comments to be dismissive to what I actually knew from talking to these people.
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That's debatable https://medium.com/world-of-music/were-artists-really-paid-more-in-the-90s-3d31805d49e2 … And this isn't even getting into the fact that you have to sell a ton of records to even break even as an artist before you start getting royalties.
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Modern digital artists who aren't part of a label generally take a much bigger cut of album sales than 90s major label artists did.
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