I don’t see ANY sign of anything improving. We live in an era where people increasingly allow big corporations to walk all over them and impose them what they “should” buy and “enjoy”. Small businesses are mercilessly crushed every day. Those who work for “corporate music” will survive (with increasingly lousier pay, when their job is not outsourced…), all the others will pound sand. If you don’t have a big megaphone, no one is going to hear you. And they control all communications. Big business controls all the media and they’re happily on their way to totally controlling the internet, thanks to people’s apathy and inaction.
I’m glad I’m not young anymore. The next 50 years won’t be a picnic for anyone in this business, except for the corporate elites.