Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Dec-2018 12:24:28 EST
Annah"emsenn @emsenn 2h I used to run a music label and here's some numbers from 2012 to 2016:Within my county, pay for 1h of live music dropped from ~$30/h to ~$6/h.Average pay per streamed song dropped $0.03 cents to $0.007Cost to belong to proper songwriting and such unions went up from $160/yr to $780/yr---Note that over this period, online piracy plummeted and subscriptions to streaming services rose dramatically.Don't assume not pirating has improved things for musicians."
Unions in almost all real-world situations I've seen are corrupt as hell and don't actually benefit the worker. They become their own business providing a "service" for a fee. Where the "service" is you can practice your trade without them harassing you via the courts.
It's unfortunate that ActivityPub is the horse the mainstream has put money on for the federation because if it does get mainstream acceptance with this shambles of a protocol with so many foundational problems, it can and it will fail.
La bienveillance et le respect « plus nécessaires que jamais », dit la reine… Durant ses traditionnels vœux de Noël, la reine Élisabeth II, reine de tous les pays du Commonwealth, dont le Canada, a rappelé l'importance de la paix et du bon vouloir en expliquant que tous devraient se respecter même dans la différence.… — http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1143871/voeux-noel-bienveillance-respect-reine-elisabeth-
While we're on the topic, let's not forget that JP has made a name for himself and a lot of money by being obscenely sexist and racist too. Considering how hostile a lot of academic fields already are to women, people of color, queer folks, etc, I'm quite certain we're losing nothing of value by keeping him and his supporters off this instance.
your comrades are not fash. you can have actual discourse with them. grow up and talk to each other instead of pulling the trigger on cancellation for one bad take