Spotify just reported record-breaking profits.
In totally unrelated news, Spotify stopped paying nearly 90% of artists on the service ANYTHING (no royalties for songs w <1k streams/year)
Spotify just reported record-breaking profits.
In totally unrelated news, Spotify stopped paying nearly 90% of artists on the service ANYTHING (no royalties for songs w <1k streams/year)
Slave labor is back.
The industries currently built on slave labor:
1. Retail monopolies like Amazon, Walmart, and Target
https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-c6f0eb4747963283316e494eadf08c4e
2. Music distribution monopolies like Spotify
https://www.billboard.com/business/publishing/spotify-sued-mlc-bundling-cutting-songwriter-royalties-1235684122/
3. Social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, Reddit
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2022/05/unpaid-social-media-moderators/
https://omr.com/en/daily/eddit-google-affiliate-spam
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/unpaid-moderators-internet-reddit-facebook-1.7267817
4. Browser & search monopolies like Google
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/10/google-underpaid-workers-illegal-pay-disparity-documents
5. Societal
https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n1972
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@aram
Provide a good service --> create a monopoly --> once the monopoly is set --> reduce features --> insert ads --> make them pay for basic features --> take the users and content creators hostage, since they can't move elsewhere --> extract all possible value for yourself. Karl Marx wrote about Spotify, in the 19th century, Cory Doctorow wrote about it today: Enshittification.
It stops when we boycott their arses.
@aram
Thank you for the heads up. I am deleting the app now, and my husband will do the same. We gotta support artists while they’re alive. Otherwise, we don’t get new music.
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