Not equivalent. Plus there is plenty of shops that dont care of you're a bit short a cent or two is nothing. Ive gone to shops and forgotten my card and walked away with $20 of food and i just pay them next time I'm in.

If you're a cent short just go talk to the checkout lady and she'll sort it out.

$4 over a year is a rounding error.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It is comparable you can't minimize small amount of money. When someone stream an artist he should get compensated even if it is a very small amount of money and not to be given to rich artists like Drake

If you're a cent short just go talk to the checkout lady and she'll sort it out.

It is very rare even in small businesses. They have no obligation to accept.

$4 over a year is a rounding error.

4$ a year is for dollars a year that should belong to the artists that generate it

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

They are compensated for the value they create. If their music cant break 1000 streams in a year its creating no value for spotify. This is an agreement they are fully aware of and they choose to still put their music on spotify. Spotify offers a ton of value to these artists and only gets returns on that investment if the artist actually makes good music.

When we look at who is winning/losing for an artist making music that cant break 1000 streams its spotify losing. They have unpopular unwanted music taking up space and shitting up their recomended algo. Everytime they show that music to someone its a risk that the user has a bad experience. But the artist is still given the chance and to the artist thats extremely valuable far more valuable than a few cents.

How do you feel about adblock and piracy? I'd argue that we dont have to compensate people for every little thing and i'd use that as an example.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You just a terrible person shitting on small artists and defending major labels. The algorithms do not push those artists so your argument is trash and factually wrong.

Spotify allowed billions of fraudulent, bot-driven streams to inflate Drake visibility. You have no problem with that you just have problem with small artists that many of them make quality music. I do not wish music I hate to be demonetized because I believe in fairness between artists

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 0 points 1 day ago

I get new artists recommended to me all the time. Every one of my discover weekly playlists has a song from someone with under 5k listeners.

You are obviously trolling since there is not way you could know I'm "factual wrong" since neither of us have facts on the Spotify algo and you clearly have no idea how the world works.

Maybe your friend who is a "small artist" should leave Spotify and return once they have listeners or make music people enjoy.