The economics of music have always been the same for an artist. You starve for decades, and if you are lucky enough to have something connect with a large audience, then you cease starving. Everyone who is successful on an organic level has the same basic tale to tell. There is no fixing it. It just is what it is as it is in many other "demand" related businesses. Today the tools exist to extract millions of dollars of free media and self marketing that did not exist as few as 25 years ago.

Thanks, I'm sure you have more experience than I do in the music and entertainment industry. My point was when the film/TV industry gets co-opted, replaced, redacted or otherwise either by AI or format changes it mirrors our situation that happened slowly over the past 25 years. Very few outside the music industry spoke out when music's value became $.003 cents per stream basically making it almost valueless. But you already knew that right? Hollywood isn't worried about artistic integrity as much as it worried about their mortgage payments. Trust me they see the writing on the wall. So please pardon my lack of sympathy on their behalf at this point. 🤷‍♂️