Why is Spotify all the way down here? - I keep my music available on Spotify (for now) because it is still the industry leading streaming service, but here are just a FEW reasons why I do not actively promote its use: - Spotify continues to lean further towards abandoning the artists, and creating their own "AI artists" to fill their own algorithms and playlists with music that they do not have to pay royalties on. - CEO Daniel Ek invested $700 million into military AI and drone warfare. The average artist payout on Spotify is $0.003 per stream. Our already empty pockets are being robbed to fund the military industrial complex. - Because they are the industry leading streaming service, other platforms are incentivized to compete by duplicating Spotify's practices. The ability to stream ANY song we want at ANY time of the day INSTANTLY is a work of magic that we can all appreciate. But I must ask you to consider how the rise of convenience culture in media has effected your life, and how strange it is for us to expect all of the world's media at our fingertips for $10 a month. We use it because it's incredibly convenient, but when was the last time you made a contribution to the thousands of hours of media you've consumed?