I actually like some of the American micro brewed stuff . America has a lot of that small scale economy and all that eco stuff too . Just go to Portland . Just not in the rust belt and other areas . Unemployment in America is pretty low on the coast , and unemployment pretty high in parts of the German rust belt near Duisburg . It ' s just that the American culture of big government is bad won ' t help those areas or people . When Saab went bankrupt in Sweden , the government incentivizes and subsidizes reeducation in Trollhttan which helped a bit . <| sep |> Well the most obvious answer is sampling . People can make amazing music that is solely comprised of bits and pieces of existing recordings . This along with the piano roll have led many artists , especially in the electronic genre , to be musically illiterate . So no more notating on paper . I know you probably consider these tools but the available tools are what dictate the process .