I bet you don't. Since without the musicians there's no music, and without Spotify there's Apple Music, CD's, Napster, and so on and so forth.

The degree to which people attempt to ignore the value of recorded music from a financial standpoint always bothers me. It's one of the most enduring and useful things that makes people happy in the history of civilization. It's important to nearly all people in all cultures on earth, and unites and inspires us.

The largest peaceful gatherings of human beings that have ever happened, and ever happen, are people getting together to hear music performed.

So I disagree. I think you aren't actually allocating the value of music creation vs music distribution correctly,