If their art dies out, maybe nobody will know how bad all the pianos are. And then we'll all have slightly worse pianos than we would otherwise have. And I mean if that's the way things are going to go, then let's just steer the Earth into the Sun, because what's the point of any of this.
I think a similar thing happened to journalism ethics over the course of the 20th century up through the 1st quarter of the 21st.
If you extend your journalism one back a quarter, you lose that trend, instead, we start and end with the fine art of creating click bait. Yellow journalists followed by Buzzfeed bloggers
I think a similar thing happened to journalism ethics over the course of the 20th century up through the 1st quarter of the 21st.
The XKCD counterpoint: https://xkcd.com/915/
(I think this shows how arrogant Randall Munroe can be sometimes. He does a lot of great stuff, but when he's wrong, he's egregiously so!)