The post notes that Spotify pays $0.003-$0.005 per stream, and compares that to the average exec making $200k/year.

If Spotify diverted all that exec money to artists, I wonder whether the $0.003-$0.005 figure would change, or if that would be too only amount to <$0.0005 difference.

It might be fair to criticize Spotify's deal with rights holders of music, but the above line of critique doesn't hold so strong to me.

As it happens, $200k/year for an exec seems low?

Disclaimer: I don't use Spotify and instead manage my own collection.