Musicians and all content creators should be richer.

People save money by pirating and getting free entertainment from content creators. They use the saved up money for things they cannot pirate. Most humans are self centered and care about themselves, family and close friends only. They don't care about some random content creator's life.

Music sales revenue declined by half in 15 years, not cos' people stopped listening to music, but cos' of the impact of piracy. It forces content creators to sell stuff for too cheap cos' people threaten they will just pirate if they don't get stuff for free/super cheap. Such a market is extremely toxic to live in.

Piracy has destroyed the music middle class. People who are into non-mainstream music are not any more moral than mainstream music fans. They will still pirate you and your niche band. You cannot afford to be pirated cos' you already made the decision to make non-commercial music which makes your potential audience much smaller. Your audience gets a chance to participate in the culture/entertainment you create while not giving you anything.

Becoming "someone" in music or any kind of art is VERY hard, there is no textbook that gives you all the answers, just working hard does not mean you will make it. Even if you make it in such a risky field of life you still won't be getting your money's worth. Usually in business if you succeed in a risky business decision you earn a lot more than people who play it safe, this is not the case in music. You will never get your true market worth cos' of piracy.

People have no problem that a guy who was the founder of u-Torrent is running Spotify while they have a problem with a "rich" musician trying to run a similar service.

The tech companies love piracy. They especially love the safe harbor provision of the DMCA. The hardware/platforms they produce are worthless without content. Some people think they're entitled to content by just buying a computer and internet service. They end up financing the tech companies and pirating a large share of the content they consume. Horrible times to be a content creator.