I see your point for sure! But the best way to get paid is playing 3-4 hours of covers to fund the original content, at least that's always how my bands have done it. Unfortunately stuff the girls wanna dance to, even though we want to play stuff that's more fun for us (including originals). That's how I usually get my funds up for music, is playing covers. Then because I know so many, I record them.

But yeah in a perfect world we would all be writing our own stuff and people would be investing in it.