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Originally posted by TikiMiss
They are called greedy because they marketed themselves as greedy.
If I wanted to start a Starbucks competitor, I wouldn't say: "Hey, I make coffee too, but I don't get paid enough! So here's Farbucks, you can pay me $1 more for basically the same coffee, and you won't be supporting Starbucks111!!"
That's like marketing 100.
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Your example isn't quite the same though. It would be more like this.
"Hey I grow coffee beans too, but I am not getting paid enough per bean by Starbucks. So here's Farbucks, you can pay me #1 more for basically the same coffee but me and all the other coffee bean farmers will get a significantly larger compensation."
And this exists. It's called fair trade coffee.
It's merely one group of people seeing that their product, the thing they work for months and sometimes years on is being given away with very little return coming their way. It's not greedy to notice that other people are making far more money off something
you've created. I'm not going to call Spotify greedy because they are a business and can do whatever they want, if the artist doesn't like it, they can pull out (like Taylor) but in this situation Tidal wouldn't have existed if Spotify/Labels "greed" didn't make it so artists got less.
All the new music in the curated playlists 
Really? Are you going to come for me because I buy food at a grocery store, but I still hate Tidal? 
Y'all getting paid or something?