4.) Fuck you you arrogant prick. You are being willfully ignorant and deliberately misinterpreting what I'm saying. And the insults are really unwarranted. Stop. Please just stop. But also, fuck you again.
Children born between next Wednesday and Friday will be designated "generation cd-dvd" closely followed by those born the following week who will be called "generation noombers".
The media will focus tightly on how these two groups, born mere hours apart can be entirely characterised in general terms that don't consider geographic, social, economic, or race discrepancies and will set them against each other in a bitter feud that includes housing availability and which slang is the best slang.
Yeah, I suppose, in a closed system that might he true.
But this isnt a closed system.
Bandcamp, for example is rife with wonderful small scale artists. There are local music scenes. There are loads of ways of choosing to stream music.
The thing is that people choose to listen to Spotify despite this. And that is a choice.
We have to be careful when talking about things when we start suggesting that people are not smart enough, or motivated enough to know what they want.
Demand is not generated here, but fulfilled. People just want background music. The properties of that music, and its artistic integrity, isnt a factor in that decision, so it is a demand based upon other properties... Brand recognition, user experience and ubiquity.
Again, I'm not defending this, and it isnt something that appeals to me, but it is easier to understand how these revelations will probably not make much of an impact of spotifys business model.
Devils advocate moment... If people keep listening (or sort of listening) and they are OK with music that seems to lack any soul, is it not just giving the audience what they want and deserve?
Devils concierge moment... What a bunch of shitbags.
It is mans struggle with his inner dickishness that sets him apart from the animals. This dualitilty sharpens his faculties. It is not the lack of dickishness but the ability to overcome it that makes the man.
How did they make sure you got a speeding ticket? Seems like an over-reach even for a multi national corporation.