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 ?? Are you insane? Seriously, how rich are you? How rich, irresponsible or just ignorant can you be that you don't mind spending 13€ on this, when there are alternatives that are far more complete, faster and give you full control over the things you have? You wanna support a creator, buy their merch. Yknow what, just buy their fucking album, just not through Spotify?? Like, you can spend ~10,000€ on music over 60 years, I don't mind - just don't do it through Spotify. Find the most direct way to financially support your favorite artists, and use that. Saves you money, removes all the unfairness in Spotify's pro rata model, makes you feel better //and// you get your music for free, all of it. And you also have their merch now. I cannot describe just how lazy and irresponsible going through Spotify is, when, even if you genuinely want to support music development and artists, there are a bazillion ways of doing that.
-It is //only// corporate propaganda that makes you think that you should submit to a model that gives 30% of your money to Taylor Swift, and that this model is better than listening to music for free (and making sure that you support your favorite artists). If Spotify were free, I would still not use it over being limited and clunky, but at least people wouldn't be morons for using it. At this point it would essentially be a platform like YouTube, just a bit worse ((Spotify has a reduced catalogue, but yes I understand that it is better streamlined towards actual music and does things better than YouTube in terms of keeping its catalogue //clean//<nowiki>(Ie. less duplicates and problems like this.)</nowiki>)).
+It is //only// corporate propaganda that makes you think that you should submit to a model that gives 30% of your money to Taylor Swift, and that this model is better than listening to music for free (and making sure that you support your favorite artists). If Spotify were free, I would still not use it over being limited and clunky, but at least people wouldn't be morons for using it. At this point it would essentially be a platform like YouTube, just a bit worse((Spotify has a reduced catalogue, but yes I understand that it is better streamlined towards actual music and does things better than YouTube in terms of keeping its catalogue //clean//<nowiki> (Ie. less duplicates and problems like this.)</nowiki>)).
-Seriously though. How much money do you have? Throughout the month we all try so hard to save money and hurt people in the process. Not buying fairtrade here, getting food delivered there, ordering from Amazon this, not donating to a charity that. But when it comes to music, suddenly it's all "oh, livelihoods depend on this". Huh?? What are you talking about? You really wanna make an impact with your money, then try to not save money on //anything else// - just not music. It just does not make sense how you can accept the full bandwidth of corporate exploitation in Spotify (or the music industry as a whole) and hamstring yourself to a lower quality of service, a minimal, corporate-chosen catalogue and all the limitations and restrictions of the Spotify prison, just so you can think to yourself that you're the right thing by paying 4 bucks to Taylor Swift on a monthly basis. Yeah, Taylor Swift really needs your money.
+Seriously though. How much money do you have? Throughout the month we all try so hard to save money and, in the process,hurt people. Not buying fairtrade here, getting food delivered there, ordering from Amazon this, not donating to a charity that. But when it comes to music, suddenly it's all "oh, livelihoods depend on this". Huh?? What are you talking about? You really wanna make an impact with your money, then try to **not** save money on //anything else//. Buy fairtrade, do whatever. Just don't get weird with music. It just does not make sense how you can accept the full bandwidth of corporate exploitation in Spotify (or the music industry as a whole) and hamstring yourself to a lower quality of service, a minimal, corporate-chosen catalogue and all the limitations and restrictions of the Spotify prison, just so you can think to yourself that you're doing the right thing by paying four bucks to Taylor Swift on a monthly basis.
-Honestly, if your monthly charity budget is limited to 13 bucks (Four of which go to Taylor Swift) use it on literally anything else, please. And then listen to music for free. //Please//.
+Honestly, if your monthly charity budget is limited to 13 bucks (four of which go to Taylor Swift), use it on literally anything else. And then listen to music for free. //Please//.