You've written more here in comments than I did in the post :)
Budding musicians have to be social media savvy these days. Hive offers opportunities that include earning something from the start, but there are plenty of challenges. I don't say it will be easy.
We need to get across the idea that you can earn without people sending you money and that is a really radical concept. Of course they can sell music here too as NFTs or just regular downloads. We have some projects in place to do both.