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Music is so easy to make nowadays, and everybody wants to be a musician. It is an extreme oversaturated industry, and people keep falling into the same mistake of making it a career choice.
Same with acting, art, writing, and most creative positions.
Music can be easy to make, but IMO good music usually isn't easy to produce still requires a fair amount of time and talent.
Also I never stopped buying good music despite my pirating. The recording industry has certainly stopped wanting to sell us music though, and prefers we perpetually rent it instead. There is exactly one business my town where there is a decent selection of CDs I can buy, and it's a local, independent new-and-used media store. The ONLY alternatives are walmart and target, who have maybe a dozen or so albums for sale.
P.S. To anyone who releases an album on vinyl but not on CD in 2024: I hate you with the passion and determination of a hundred honey badgers.
The programming industry is only growing. Tools like CoPilot and modern IDE might may it slightly easier, but there is no shortage of things that need development.
That's kind of a global problem, not really tied to the industry as a whole.
The difference is that a CS degree is actually useful. You wouldn't believe the amount of people with a bachelors/masters in some random degree (like math or music) that end up getting a programming job.