spotify's business model

 spotify clearly makes heavy use of machine learning algorithms. of statistics. of the cataloguing of the complex system - the numerology of musical records - that is an art movement, and is a place, and is a people, all at the same time.

 but - spotify can't magically seek out songs to play for you

 it doesn't have everything. it doesn't know everything. it doesn't even have rights to play half of the music records in the world. of course not. it can hardly even tell one person apart from another person.

 why would people use it?

 when it is inaccurate, it is as inaccurate as an overeager friend trying to show you a new artist. when it is repetitive, it is as repetitive as the rain that comes after days that you wish never happened. when it is dull, it is only as dull as the weeks that form up around it and within it. a giant, an imprecise, lumbering, unknowing thing, seeking such elixir that can soothe the noble, distant, flickering thing that is the soul.

 if you could ever know kindness in an unthinking, unmoral, destructive giant - for all giants destroy, - spotify would have it

 not youtube

 not amazon

 not even the apple app store

 also i never used spotify

 how tf am i supposed to know how their business model works