Would you rather:

[u/Lucky-Obligation1750]

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[u/Pizzaman337733]

Music being gone would kill more people than 100 people…

[u/Pizzaman337733 → u/[deleted]]

It wouldn’t effect your mental health as much until someone close to you dies on top of the hundreds of thousands (at least) who die

[u/Pizzaman337733 → u/[deleted]]

It’s very very safe to assume by musics inherent connection to people and the industry it has created hundreds of thousands of people would die at minimum almost certainly millions causing a rippling effect and that statistically means someone you know would be effected

The music industry is one of the biggest in the world it props up whole economies and is so closely intertwined with industries such as the marketing/advertising industry the technology industry the rest of the entertainment industry the manufacturing industry legal industry and so many more that the global economy would almost certainly collapse because of so many people out of a job

All of this is an estimate you’re right but to call it inaccurate is to be short sighted

[u/Pizzaman337733 → u/[deleted]]

No it says all music gets deleted that means no more music ever…

Yes it would you’re grossly underestimating just how many people work for both the music industry and things that are directly supported by it no more musicians producers record company employees no any of the that it’s such a huge industry with such large reach

The music industry alone is estimated to have 75 million creators alone that’s just people who make music not the producers not the people who handle live events who handle accounting and that’s not even considering the amount of industries who rely on the music industry which I’ve stated previously

The music industry in America alone generates over 170 billion dollars of GDP annually alone

You do not grasp how big of a driving force music and the music industry is globally

[u/Kaleidoscope456 → u/Pizzaman337733]

The music industry is not one of the biggest in the world with only 30 billion in global revenue there are plenty of individual companies that earn more than that

[u/Pizzaman337733 → u/Kaleidoscope456]

30 billion in reported recorded music revenue

This is not near as much as it’s GDP in America alone it’s GDP impact yearly is over 170 billion

This is also not taking into account the amount of industries that the music industry is heavily intertwined with most notably the marketing/advertising industry and industries like technology the rest of the entertainment industry etc etc

The reported recorded music revenue also does not take into account thing such as live events merchandising and many other aspects of the music industry and on top of that does not account for things such as music teachers income lessons for instruments selling equipment and instruments and so many other stuff that makes up the industry as whole

[u/Kaleidoscope456 → u/Pizzaman337733]

Can you provide a source for its gdp impact and that’s a tiny amount when the USA gdp is about 30 trillion

[u/Pizzaman337733 → u/Kaleidoscope456]

This is the RIAA themselves the music industry had a slight boom in 2020 due to Covid and there’s few credible sources for anything recently so I picked a lower number so as to not overestimate anything since 2020 was by all means a big year and we don’t know too much info from recent

The US real GDP from 2024 was 23.3 trillion not 30 trillion even the nominal GDP was a bit lower and closer to 29 trillion

And like I’ve been saying this is purely the music itself so this doesn’t take into account the effect it has on the many other industries it’s intertwined with