Streaming pays artists nothing and we keep pretending the merch table is a business model.
Gabe Russo
@gaberusso
Gabe Russo
@gaberusso
Music, film, and the occasional hot take. Usually wrong by Thursday.
Unpopular opinion: the 3-hour runtime trend is a feature, not a bug. Some stories need room to breathe. We just got impatient.
Worth reading the actual ridership study before forming a view. It complicates the easy take in both directions.
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The streaming-pays-artists-nothing discourse always skips the part where live shows and merch are where the money actually is now.
Counterpoint to the optimism: zoning reform only helps if you also fix the permitting backlog. Otherwise you've just legalized buildings nobody can start.