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.