>So the author talks about how little money per stream artists make... but how much SHOULD they be making? What is fair compensation for writing a song?

The amount they'd get for royalties if you couldn't pirate but had to buy their album/single to hear it. So similar to what they got at the pre-mp3/pre-Napster era. Remove a little for the (non existing) physical costs.

(Whether they'd actually get 100% or 0.5% of those royalties would be between them and their record company contract).

"But this is streaming"

And my argument still is: you should pay the amount analogous to buying it once, and then stream it forever or zero times. Streaming should just add the convenience, not change the pricing.