This feels like one of those tropes that keeps showing up whenever new tech comes out. At the advent of recorded music, im sure buskers and performers were complaing that live music is dead forever. Stage actors were probably complaining that film killed plays. Heck, I bet someome even complained that video itself killed the radio star. Yet here we are, hundreds of years later, live music is still desirable, plays still happen, and faceless voices are still around, theyre just called v-tubers and podcasters.

umm, I don't know if you've seen the current state of trying to make a living with music but It's widely accepted as dire. Touring is a loss leader, putting out music for free doesn't pay, stream counts payouts are abysmally low. No one buys songs.

All that is before the fact that streaming services are stuffing playlists with AI generated music to further reduce the payouts to artists.

> Yet here we are, hundreds of years later, live music is still desirable, plays still happen, and faceless voices are still around...

Yes all those things still happen, but it's increasingly untenable to make a living through it.