Also we can look at his contemporaries to see what will happen. Eventually his music will become mainstream as the youth that were accepting of it aged into adulthood and societal values shifted forward. He’d make a decent amount of money, likely start his own record label, potentially act in a few movies or make cameo appearances. He’ll probably have had kids, gone through a soft phase where he realizes he can’t share his work with them, potentially be a regular character in children’s media to compensate or release an album that’s far outside his niche that fans will dislike but will be well received by the wider audience.

By now he’ll be 55 and while he’ll have done a sizeable amount of effort to curate his PR it will be shown that he regularly endorses Republican candidates because the benefits they offer to his current lifestyle trump the negatives they deliver to everyone currently experiencing the problems that made his music resonate.

I literally can’t think of any counter culture creator that survived and didn’t go down this pipeline.