Well, as a musician myself, I often feel a bit conflicted reading statements like these. After all, as uncomfortable as it may be, it is <insert big pop artist> that brings _most_ people to a platform, not the indies, typically.
That's because a small number of streaming services monopolized the market. In the old days, the mid-sized city I live in used to have like 15 mainstream music stores and 3 that carried mostly indie music and they were well-visited.
Streaming could be fair if they cut up the royalties by subscribes:
https://medium.com/cuepoint/streaming-music-is-ripping-you-o...
But the labels with major pop acts simply will not let that happen, because it'll drastically lower their revenue.