How absolutely entitled. Almost 20 years ago I would have killed for a distribution platform as slick as what there is today. Is it a generational thing maybe? I don't know, but just because you create doesn't obligate people to consume.
How is this that much different to criticizing the cut that a dominant distributor takes from vendors in e-commerce or video games?
Even if you exclude all the discoverability functionality, just the pure distribution aspect, at this scale, makes the Spotify system impressive. Why should that system and all the work that went into it, be free?
I don't think there are any legal barriers for someone to go ahead and build their own music distribution system that is more fair than Spotify. It's just a matter of putting in the time, no?
But I think that's more about lack of knowledge rather than anything else.
I want universal basic income just so the most artistic and interesting of us can go and try cool innovative stuff without fear of death.
It is the most successful UBI experiment.
Now that the gravy train is over, I suspect open source projects will suffer and will increasingly be at the mercy of corporate funding or VCs.