I like music, I respect musicians. I don’t have that talent.
But, face it, if you work in a gig-type economy, you are going to have periods of feast and famine.
Should we socialize this for musicians, and have them all work for the government?
Musicians aren’t (or shouldn’t be) the point so much as gig workers in general. With loads and loads of workers paid by taxpayers at their full rate without working at all (via the PPP incentive to small businesses)—while gig workers at best got squat through PUA.