What’s ghoulish is the current ways art is tangled up with making a living. Most of the widely used forms of monetization are tied up with making the work worse, ad-ridden, copyright-laden, less accessible, less sharable, more controlled, more limited, less available, gunked up with DRM, and placed in an exploitative structure where execs and distributors of course always make sure that their slice of the pie is the biggest, in a world where the village troubador needs to compete with the world’s biggest stars or starve.