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Big or small artist makes no difference. In fact, for a small starting artist it's probably easier to start touring as people won't be expecting a huge light show.
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How do you propose that the smaller artists fund the tour if they are obscure? There are PA systems involved, there's transportation, you've got to hire people like engineers and managers, all kinds of stuff. Just because you don't need to bring a couple of lights, it doesn't mean it's going to be cheap.
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Music shouldn't be any different. You write a song, you finalize it and you put it out there. If you're lucky some people will buy it from you but if you want to use your music to create income you should work for it, not sit on your lazy ass expecting money from royalties.
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Alright, there's a problem here. All musicians, even the bad ones who create business music instead of artistic music, continue to compose and play their stuff, unless they enter a different business or unless they die or something. As for the aforementioned record company puppets, they need to continue to produce music in order to generate as much profit as is possible.
As for the more sincere composers and performers, they continue to compose/play new stuff because it's what they do. It's both their job and their hobby. They're inclined to create and they need to do so to make money. In fact, a lot of these people have such a hard time, they'll never even be able to attain half of the wealth which the more commercially acceptable musicians do attain.
In fact, even the more commercially acceptable musicians don't get paid what their products generate. The first people to get money are the record executives and other such people who are in charge at the record companies. In fact, the record company and the distributor gets
most of the money. The last people to get paid are the artists (or exploitees, whatever you want to call them).
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Being a construction worker is hard work too, probably harder than writing and composing.
I don't hear any construction workers claiming they should get a penny each time someone enters the building they built. They get paid for their hours or the project and that's it. On to the next project.
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First of all, I don't think that any given contruction worker could drop his work and write a great piece of music. I also doubt that any given musician could sell his instruments and start working on a house. These are two completely different skills, and it is ridiculous that you're trying to tell me that one is harder than the other.
Second of all, both industries work differently. The reason they work differently is that they need to accommodate different requirements. This also involves the financial aspects. To compare the two in such a way seems ludicrous.