Does nostr fix the starving musician problem? nostr:note18yep3cmjjcavn583n3z5v43v0p74s8vyrusn0g02d6y38lfelqwstntgp3
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No. Poorly run, predatory labels, publishers, management companies, and other middlemen are the crux of the problem. In short, bad contracts.
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It has to potential to help resolve it. Statistically, I don't know the answer to whether or not MORE musicians are earning a living compared to 100 years ago (that's a mean vs. median type question). The cost of living is definitely a factor - you can't sustain a family unless you're in the top 1% of touring musicians, whereas I have friends whose parents were able to support a family 60 years ago by just playing the jazz clubs.
NOSTR + RSS + BTC provides an additional revenue stream that every musician should employ (& IMO, treat like a savings account). Long term wealth, sovereignty and low time preference are driven by several factors - it's never just 1 thing - but with NOSTR in the mix, it has the potential to end artistic poverty.
Jim
I don’t think it does unfortunately. I’d like to see it happen but I don’t think it’s an easily solved issue whatsoever. So many factors that play into it other than a lack of direct payments to musicians.
Probably not. Contemporary musicians are obliged to compete against all other musicians from across the planet and throughout the past via low cost and easily transmitted recordings. Nostr and value for value may help for some contemporary musicians in a small way, but the economics of supply v. demand suggests that it will be very difficult to compete against the stockpile of existing music without exploring more extreme niches.