Sure. You could think back to 1999, when the music industry in Canada was at its peak. Today, it's a mere shell of itself. While there have been a couple of years of modest growth, there was a period of sustained decline. If you take inflation into account, we're only back to 50% of where we were then, and that doesn't take into account the explosion in consumption.
The time spent listening to music today has doubled or tripled. It's absolutely staggering, but we're not getting paid for it. We had an economist look at it, and we've estimated that between 1999 and today, in music alone in Canada $12 billion is missing. That, ladies and gentlemen, is why this man has trouble getting into the middle class.