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Originally Posted by Ninjalawyer
Citation needed. Given the ease with which current technologies allow people to produce music, the increased population of the earth and the fact that the world economy has increased, are you honestly saying that their are fewer people making music today than in 1912? Really? Really?!
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Just to be clear I am claiming that there are fewer people making a living from music today than there were one hundred years ago.
I do not have a citation to support my claim, and I may well be wrong. From my initial search I turned up
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=127434
The page states that US census bureau statistics show there were 139, 310 musicians and composers in 1910 and 161,000 in 2001.
Regardless of the truth of my claim, there has been a precipitous drop in the percentage of people that are employed as musicians.