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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: 0.207s | source
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weregiraffe ◴[29 Jun 25 04:57 UTC] No.44410458[source]▶
What's the deal with always wanting to turn art into a day job, anyway? These things are almost antithetical, as exemplifies by thousands of YouTube channel that turned into soulless content-producers in an effort to keep a schedule.

Damn, people somehow made art in 10000BC, when everyone was a hunter-gatherer by necessity.

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1. ringeryless ◴[29 Jun 25 13:27 UTC] No.44412975[source]▶
"as exemplifies by thousands of YouTube channel that turned into soulless content-producers in an effort to keep a schedule."

This means that a former musical artist became a Youtube content producer in order to earn a living. This does not illustrate the negative effects of paying musicians to make music.