>>29718244
ireland is actually subsidising artists, straight up basic income

i agree with basically everything you've said but I dont think it's consumers deciding how much an artist is paid. you know its an oversimplification to think 100% of an albums sales go to the artist. it's only getting worse with streaming and ticket scalping. it's just capitalism fucking up a good thing

>how would you force audiences to pay for the most expensive option?

there's no way you believe its the layman buying a £2 ai slop album over £12 real album. it will be companies and studios using ai to avoid having to shell out royalties. advertising, cinema etc.

it's enshittification and we're all going to be on the receiving end. we'll be served ai slop because its what we're given and if we dont like it we should just get better jobs to afford those £300 concert tickets (mst of which goes to ticketmaster and similar)

i'm not just complaining and not doing anything, I run punk shows out of my house just byob come have a good time


>>29718259
we just dont think the same way,