124 karma · joined November 13, 2019
This tweet bubbled up this weekend and it touched me: https://twitter.com/ambernoelle/status/1297191195584663554
Let's say I run a bookstore. 70% of my revenue goes to pay workers. A works 32 hours, B works 5 hours, and C works 3 hours.
Is it not fair to give A 80% of the pay pool, since she worked 80% of the hours?
Finally, terrestrial pop radio, independent college radio, and ham radioesque bedroom experimentalists are all on the same platform, the swim lanes have been erased. Everything is flattened, everything is discoverable, yet the sobering truth that few people are streaming their work elicits attacks on Spotify from bands and marginal artists. How is their contempt justified?
While they might have gotten a good six figure price, that store is known by fellow record dealers to be largely garbage LPs. It is more accumulation than collection. I wouldn't trust them with donation money for whatever flight of fancy they have next.
He needs to put line items into his LinkedIn, that's for sure. But he was probably dodging recruiterspam.