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just call people what they want to be called. everything in language is a made-up thing. as long as we understand one another who cares what the words or gestures or whatever actually are? refusing in this case is the author exercising their power to remind someone else that they get no respect, Rodney Dangerfield-style. this is a waste of time and the lecturer is not de-escalating.

this feels very 'old man yells at cloud.'

People still make money making music (and other art,) but it's changed. That's true, but this person has an outsized view of his own impact if he thinks that hustling to move 100k copies of his own record changed anything for better or worse.