Notices by Ether Diver (etherdiver@ravenation.club)

@ninavizz @aral in the US, it's not sufficient to simply earn enough to have housing/food security, since there's almost no safety net for anyone but rich people. If you want anything like real security in our society, you have to accumulate some amount of real wealth in case you, or someone you love, gets sick and can't work, for example.

@aral in general I agree but I don't think it's shameful to want to become rich and/or powerful in a system where doing so is literally the only way to have any security.

Or, as wise men are known to have said: Don't hate the player, hate the game

If you're seeing all these #BandcampFriday posts and thinking, "Eh, why bother?" let me point out that the $15 you spend on Spotify this month goes almost entirely to guys with "executive" in their job title/description, with the remainder going almost entirely to already hugely successful artists who, frankly, do not need more money. No one cares you spent the money.

That same $15 on Bandcamp today, if spent on an indie artist? About $14.50 goes to the artist, and you might make their week.

If you pay for one or more music streaming services, I'm asking you to spend an equal amount this Friday on buying music directly from Bandcamp artists. Your streaming dollars DO NOT GO TO ARTISTS. They go to tech execs. Bandcamp dollars go to musicians.

Please share this widely, too many people STILL don't know that 99.999% of every dollar they spend on Spotify et al goes directly into a tech bastard's pocket.

#Bandcamp #Musicians #SupportMusicians #SupportArt #MusiciansOfMastodon