You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song: How Streaming Changes Music Highlight

Chaotic markets do not ensure economic freedom. An audience is not a reliable employer. There are middle-class musicians, and middle-class ballet dancers, and middle-class basketball players, but they didn’t get there by institutional training and predictable career progression, like a store manager or a computer programmer. They got there by entering a stardom lottery and getting some of the numbers right, but not enough to win the jackpot.