We're at the whim of of incredibly wealthy people, and that's it's no way to run a democracy.
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a single share the public can't buy will carry 50.1% of the vote on matters submitted to shareholders generally. That share will belong to an LLC whose members are all seven of the company's co-founders.
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The sin of nearly all left-wingers from 1933 onwards is that they have wanted to be anti-Fascist without being anti-totalitarian.
George Orwell — Notes on Nationalism
Spotify realizes this, of course. That's why the company works so hard to promote passive listening. The less listeners care about the specific artists, the more power Spotify has over the industry. That's the number one reason why music feels so stagnant right now. The most powerful company in music wants it that way—and thus encourages passive listening and a world in which songs are generic content.
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