I have music on Spotify and I get 2/10ths of a cent per play. I've earned enough to buy a cup of coffee and not much else. I can't imagine anyone trying to make an actual living that way.
You're no longer fighting for dollars as an artist, you're fighting for attention. There are more people out there willing to give their content away for pennies or free then people who want to live off of the music they make.
Perhaps artists should hop on the basic income bandwagon.
Walk into your typical library. Look at all of the books on the shelves. Pick a random book. Pull it out. Imagine that book yells at you "I deserve more money if you want to read me!".
Do you pay for the privilege to read that book? Or do you push it back in and pick from the thousands of other books available? We are awash in cheap/free content, that's the problem.