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What technology is doing to attention, taste, and craft. Criticism of the platforms shaping what gets made, who gets paid, and how audiences find anything at all.
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Platforms spent a decade replacing curators with ranking models. Several are now rebuilding editorial teams, and the reason is retention rather than principle.
Per-stream rates are the wrong thing to argue about. The pooled payout model transfers money from mid-catalogue artists to the largest ones by design.
