Robin James: "Things that scale include neoliberal feminine resilience and neoreactionary masculine resilience. Musical labor creates friction, whereas sportsbetting and crypto scale. [...] In 2026, slop scales. Actual musical labor and the critical labor involved in interpreting music does not scale. Critics dig their teeth into the products of musical labor, where the friction of work creates the open, messy, plurivalent art object ripe for the labor of interpretation (and the social proces of debate). "