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The Death of the Middle-Class Musician

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300 points pseudolus | 1 comments | 28 Jun 25 22:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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Projectiboga ◴[29 Jun 25 01:30 UTC] No.44409650[source]▶
What has been developing for awhile is that musicians are coming from richer backgrounds on average. They can dally around trying their hand as a working musician and can fail and not be destitute. The age of a working class or lower class musician is waining.
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1. TrackerFF ◴[29 Jun 25 11:01 UTC] No.44412091[source]▶
Pretty much anything in the "creatives" industry.

Want to work for the most prestigious fashion brands? You start with unpaid (or very low pay) internships in some of the most expensive cities in the world. Same goes for record labels. Art. Literature publishing.

And these days, some of the above will filter out applicants that don't have big enough social media accounts.