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There are various causes. One is that live performing has pretty much died as a source of income. Venues have closed because of rising rents and fewer customers, due to covid and people in general staying home and spending their time on social media. Touring has also gotten much more expensive.

Also recording has died out as a source of income for most artists due to streaming and now ai. Also session work where most musicians have been replace first by computer generated music and now ai.

Also recording companies have stopped signing acts and then publicizing them. Every artist is expected to do their own promoting on social media. And then, as Beato says in the video, there is the lack of practice spaces, and cheap apartments to live in.

I am a fan of the astonishing prodigy drummer Yoyoka Soma. She moved her family from Japan to LA 4 years ago, but was able to do it only because she has a rich patron. I am also a fan of the astonishing prodigy singer Angelina Jordan. She moved her family from Norway to LA 7 years ago, but was able to do it only because her grandmother, whom moved with them, is wealthy.