Comment by Jommi

I'm not sure why you're attributing this to some bad will from the platform instead of just basic supply and demand economics?

Spotify directly removed massive barriers to entry in distributing music. So there are more artists available to you than ever. Listeners might have grown as well, but it seems not in the same scale.

This could also be the case in microstock (and it seems to make logical sense). More and more photos are posted, and more people are posting. So ofcourse as supply grows the price lowers.