If anybody wants to know how to earn $20/decade with Spotify I can throw some of my own experiences into a blog post :)
Edit: clickbaity: “How to Bomb Spotify”
Also Spotify is definitely missing a lot of obscure music and there definitely aren’t enough live musicians. Otherwise I could afford to have a good band play live in my living room every Sunday morning.
There was a time when you had to have two mediocre gifts to make it: talent and beauty. Or just have one of those gifts, but in spades. It seems like there's a lot more mediocre talent now, since we've evolved to devalue beauty.
What's the conversion rate for the Roman sesterces in 44BC to USD?
On a lighter note, I think The Onion captured the reality of incomes on Spotify very well by this captioned picture: https://local.theonion.com/band-blows-entire-spotify-royalty...