I've been a paying subscriber since 2007 and it's given me so much new music I'd never have heard of without it.
Oddly enough, regardless of the station, it'll play me some Johnny Cash. Metal station? Johnny Cash. Punk station? Johnny Cash. Funk station? Believe it or not, Johnny Cash. I have the best Pandora in the world thanks to Johnny Cash.
When companies do good, that's a good economy. Companies do good when they make a lot of profit. Companies make a lot of profit by paying their workers way less than what they make selling the thing they make.
So when workers are ripped off more, the economy does better.