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 First off, Spotify is a licensing and corporatization platform. So, anything added to the platform becomes part of a long and winding monetization pipeline. In fact, monetization is the aspect that determines whether music lands there or not in the first place. Compare to YouTube where, except for certain copyrighted works, pretty much anything goes - especially stuff you made yourself. Music, in any way, shape or form, can be uploaded to YouTube and the scope of the platform is, because of this design, infinite. This is mostly a matter of unenforced copyright rules/law, but it means that YouTube either (1) //has// everything or (2) at least gives you the option to //make it// have everything.
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 It is //only// corporate propaganda that makes you think that you should submit to a model that gives 30% of your money to Taylor Swift, and that this model is better than listening to music for free (and making sure that you support your favorite artists). If Spotify were free, I would still not use it over being limited and clunky, but at least people wouldn't be morons for using it. At this point it would essentially be a platform like YouTube, just a bit worse((Spotify has a reduced catalogue, but yes I understand that it is better streamlined towards actual music and does things better than YouTube in terms of keeping its catalogue //clean//<nowiki> (Ie. less duplicates and problems like this.)</nowiki>)).
-Seriously though. How much money do you have? Throughout the month we all try so hard to save money and hurt people in the process. Not buying fairtrade here, getting food delivered there, ordering from Amazon this, not donating to a charity that. But when it comes to music, suddenly it's all "oh, livelihoods depend on this". Huh?? What are you talking about? You really wanna make an impact with your money, then try to not save money on //anything else// - just not music. It just does not make sense how you can accept the full bandwidth of corporate exploitation in Spotify (or the music industry as a whole) and hamstring yourself to a lower quality of service, a minimal, corporate-chosen catalogue and all the limitations and restrictions of the Spotify prison, just so you can think to yourself that you're doing the right thing by paying four bucks to Taylor Swift on a monthly basis.
+Seriously though. How much money do you have? Throughout the month we all try so hard to save money and, in the process,hurt people. Not buying fairtrade here, getting food delivered there, ordering from Amazon this, not donating to a charity that. But when it comes to music, suddenly it's all "oh, livelihoods depend on this". Huh?? What are you talking about? You really wanna make an impact with your money, then try to **not** save money on //anything else//. Buy fairtrade, do whatever. Just don't get weird with music. It just does not make sense how you can accept the full bandwidth of corporate exploitation in Spotify (or the music industry as a whole) and hamstring yourself to a lower quality of service, a minimal, corporate-chosen catalogue and all the limitations and restrictions of the Spotify prison, just so you can think to yourself that you're doing the right thing by paying four bucks to Taylor Swift on a monthly basis.
-Honestly, if your monthly charity budget is limited to 13 bucks (Four of which go to Taylor Swift), use it on literally anything else. And then listen to music for free. //Please//.
+Honestly, if your monthly charity budget is limited to 13 bucks (four of which go to Taylor Swift), use it on literally anything else. And then listen to music for free. //Please//.