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https://archive.is/wOQDL#selection-633.0-633.39

Yes, but your favorite type of music may not be my favorite type of music. “Good enough” music might be a commodity, and with the commodification of “good enough” music, the more niche genres will start to disappear.

I wonder if there is any artistic benefit by marrying the arts with a deeply capitalist system.

Obviously as this article mentions its not great for the artists themselves, but perhaps the cutthroat nature of the industry makes it so that only the best of the best rise to the top, even if it means it comes from an independently wealthy musician.

As a child of AAPI immigrants, this piece really hit home, especially when the author mentioned how the struggles of her parent’s generation impacted the way she was raised.

I recently interviewed for a frontend web dev intern position at a FANG company and I didn’t get a single LeetCode question. Instead, I was asked to code part of a website though. Idk whether that is the case for full-time position however.