The Post-Enshittocene Music Manifesto

<p>The music industry is extractive. Royalties go unclaimed, algorithms decide what gets heard, and talented musicians are burning out and walking away – even as the business generates more money than ever, most of it siphoned off before it reaches the people who made the music. Anything that can’t go on forever eventually stops.</p><p>This episode makes the case for what comes after: a “post-enshittocene” music economy built around connection, agency, dignity, meaning, and joy instead of extraction. Drawing on a lifetime in music technology – from a university DAW project decades ahead of its time, through Fairlight Instrument...