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  • Essentially popular music is made via assembly lines owned by manufacturers now.

    1. People churn out beats.
    2. Other people lay down gibberish lyrics to set a melody to the best from step 1.
    3. The best from step 2 get, writers, actual lyrics and an artist.
    4. Artist records
    5. Engineers heavily rework the recorded vocals

    The companies that run these assembly lines aren’t going to rock the boat like that. Writers that neither made the music nor will have any part of recording or performing are making a product. It’s not a passion project, so they aren’t going to write protest lyrics either. In the 60s and 70s, there was a lot of popular music that really was made by individual artists and bands.

    Today, there is plenty of protest music. It’s just not popular music because it doesn’t have as much industry backing.



  • I know someone who works in IT at a place where they found that keystrokes rose 40% in office and significantly more work was completed as measured by story points. Keystrokes aren’t a great way to measure productivity, but it’s very suspicious that people somehow had to type less when they have to type to talk to anyone and often don’t have to in office.

    It’s not perfectly scientific, but businesses pretty much never have scientific data to work with and the evidence they have says people overall are more productive in office.