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by 6stringmerc 3598 days ago
CTRL+F "music" & "iTunes" - only one result, as part of the framing by the writer.

Unless Tim & co. decide to confront the reality that they're stepping up "vertical integration" model using the Robber Baron playbook when it comes to the actual arts, I think his "social responsibility" comments mean fuck-all. Go ahead, build a new environmentally friendly compound, that's great, good on you. And how's about that 30% you skim off the top of every non-Drake "Most-Favored-Nation" artist who has to go through your channels or lose out?

Actions about social responsibility speak louder than words, and right now, Braeburn Capital and billions of dollars being slushed around offshore rather than pay the tax to re-patriate those funds means talk is cheap. I'm a contrarian by nature, but I know a puff piece when I see it. So Tim is good at hitting softball questions, whoop-dee-whoo.

Of course it's lonely and isolating at the top of the mountain - just look at Kurt Cobain.

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Big interviews like this come with a price. They are always puff pieces.
Well I remember that approach tended to gloss over a lot of the newsworthy stuff involving Tiger Woods. Says a lot about US culture when serious "leaders" will only sit down to have their egos stroked. See also: Donald Trump.