On a personal note: I find that not even FOSS developers like me are spared from this.

  • Th4tGuyII@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    This essentially boils down to big business wanting all the reward without any of the risk - they’ve turned artists into their own self-promoters so even when artists are new, they already have a stable audience to sell to, at the expense of the artist of course

    Edit: … at some point you might as well self-publish too, but that brings its own damn problems