Stop Consuming Music. Start Growing It.

Artists barely survive. Algorithms rule. Streaming pays pennies. The music we love is being strip-mined to death and we're all complicit. But it doesn't have to be this way. The problem isn't technology, it's that we've mistaken consumption for connection. We treat music like a resource to extract, not a commons to tend. This talk shows why extraction-based models structurally fail (music, culture, climate—same pattern), and what works instead: making our intentions visible and putting in more than we take out.  Through wearecoral, Dan's building the infrastructure to prove it—where communities fund artists from connection and trust, not transactions and clicks. For anyone who gives a shit about what we're losing.