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[-] athos77@kbin.social 311 points 1 year ago

If your business can't pay it's workers (artists) fairly, your business doesn't deserve to exist.

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 92 points 1 year ago

Tell that to American restaurants.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 35 points 1 year ago
[-] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 60 points 1 year ago

Not trying to glaze, but Trudeau had the same idea here in Canada, and Google and Facebook and most of the internet crucified him for it.

[-] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago

The internet doesn't tend to like to pay the actual cost for things. You'll find very little sympathy for paid services, especially here on Lemmy.

[-] And009@reddthat.com 18 points 1 year ago

Yes but we do agree with fair pay

[-] doppelgangmember@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Tidal has the highest artist payouts typically, besides YouTube I believe.

Make your choices ppl.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

those choices of the minority won't matter in the long run when the other service is cheaper and has the fatter marketing budget.

just look at the refusal of normies to adopt something like mastodon just because you need a couple extra steps.

[-] spacesatan@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Is that for youtube videos not youtube music? Pretty sure YT music pays less than spotify by a wide margin.

[-] AnaGram@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Found a handy little Music Streaming Royalties Calculator thing in this article. It's not 100% accurate because none of the services pay the same rate for every song, but it shows how huge the payout discrepancies are.

[-] Piafraus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Is there objective way to define what is fair? Otherwise words "fair pay" make 0 sense

[-] And009@reddthat.com 0 points 1 year ago

True it's probably going to become an outdated concept and what is really needed would be an universal basic income

[-] RGB3x3@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

Can get fair pay if the customers aren't paying

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 year ago

Not really the same, this was more large Canadian companies trying to extort money from Google whilst google still gives them their traffic.

Not trying to defend gogle, that company can burn to the ground as far as I care, but it wasn't the same

[-] pm_boobs_send_nudes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The artists aren't going to get more money. Just that the consumer won't have their music now.

[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
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