What's going on with the audio market?

People don't have as much discretionary income or time.....healthcare; taxes; food; rent; etc. takes up a large part of most peoples income. Add to it that young people have not adopted the hobby or enjoyment of listening to "actual" music for quite a long time. The passion for music has been lost in a formulaic business model that pushes the most mundane BS as music at MP3 quality and most people dont even know the history of music. Does anyone need a great system to listen to the garbage created by the likes of defjam or skidrow? No!...just a car with juiced up subs and a penchant for expletive laced egocentric nursery rhymes for criminals! What do you hear if you leave your windows open? There are still alot of good bands making great music for the sake of the music and I love them for it....but their audiences are nothing like the audiences of 70s rockers who created the whole reason many of us cared to go to shows, buy the records and then buy the systems to listen to them as they intended. Classical will always be a small piece of the pie despite the passion those listeners have to put money and time into their systems. Its going to be very hard for audio engineers to continue to fund their research into better sound...the well is running dry and its a shame that the wealth of music we have is ignored by so many who listen to "noise" without heart and soul and think its cool. Meanwhile, noise is on the rise and ask yourselves this: When was the last day you didnt hear a machine?