[HN Gopher] The Death of the Middle-Class Musician
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       The Death of the Middle-Class Musician
        
       Author : pseudolus
       Score  : 4 points
       Date   : 2025-06-28 22:06 UTC (54 minutes ago)
        
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       | WorkerBee28474 wrote:
       | ...in Canada.
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       | It's weird to call it dead because I'm not sure it was ever truly
       | alive.
        
       | parpfish wrote:
       | How many financially self-sustaining musicians _should_ there be?
       | Streaming has caused the number to fall, but recorded music
       | before that likely made it fall as well.
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       | Should we stop thinking about music as a job and start thinking
       | about it as a hobbyist art form? Nobody is out there lamenting
       | that you can't make a living off of landscape painting. It's a
       | fun form of self expression that people will do regardless of the
       | economics, so maybe the problem was ever thinking you could make
       | a profession out of it?
        
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