Excellent insights on all of this. Reminds me of when Coldplay suggested that everyone should give their music away for free, but they were already megastars, and could easily afford to do this without any financial pain. No hate to Coldplay, but for musicians who were struggling to make ends meet, that wasn’t exactly practical advice. Most people’s privilege colors the lens they see through until it’s nearly opaque. It takes a special kind of wealthy or wildly successful person to empathize with those artists who are struggling to simply survive, and still trying to make their art anyway.