There are places for it, e.g., as a big producer trying to give ups to a signee on your label, or being a starving musician early in your career. Tbh though, in most cases it's dishonest, and, just from observation, mediocre and generic.

Some people do not want to be famous, they just want to make music. I would never begrudge someone for doing that, especially since there are certain genres where that type of work is expected to happen (Pop). Lady Gaga was a ghostwriter before she started her own career. Kendrick Lamarr, Jay-Z, Ludacris, and many other well known rappers wrote bars for Dr. Dre. Even many of the most famous hollywood composers have ghostwriters, just because of how hard it would be for one person to write some of these major blockbuster soundtracks alone.

In electronic music, like in rap, it feels like a betrayal or a scam only for those who care about the process behind the music. You have your Meek Mills, who pride themselves on their lyrical ability and the fact that they can make their way through nothing but their own creativity. Then you have your Drakes, who pride themselves on their ability to perform and entertain their audience - it's not a big deal how much of the creative work behind it was theirs, because their creativity is in their stage presence.

I've actually asked non-producer friends of mine if they care that Armin or Tiesto uses ghostwriters for all their songs, and they could not care less. They just wanna hear good music.

Who am I to tell them that they're wrong?

I don't have anything against those who do the ghost producing, it's those who buy the tracks that bother me.

Putting everything aside about undermining those who put years and years into learning how to make their own stuff, it forces people who buy these tracks to lie to their fans.
 
That's my #1 problem with it.

Some people can, some people can't.

Ghost producing is such a dirty word but its important, all the big rappers like jay z and kanye west have ghost producers, in the pop world, justin bieber and all that have ghost producers, even the great thomas edison had ghost producers and engineers working for him, obama has a team of advisors to advise him what to do, etc people love steve jobs for apple but it was wozniack and Jonathan Ive who are the true designers. i dont see that as any different to electronic music, because when money is involved people want to get involved, i dunno ghost producing works both ways, if you're a talented producer without a name yet, a big dj can get involved and help you, once you get better you can develop your brand, etc, mark sixma was ghost producing for years before he made a name for himself, nicky romero was a ghost producer for david guetta, and now has a big name, people criticise armin but armin is the only reason why trance is still alive and strong today, armin is the greatest and i would ghost produce for him if it helped my career haha LOL.
you need the right attitude/skills and to meet a person who gives you a chance for a career to happen, theres just no money in producing with illegal downloads, torrent etc its gig ticket sales and spotify streams, youtube etc, but at the end of the day we all make music cause we love and enjoy to do it.

At the end of the day, I can be proud of the music I make. That's why I do this.

Check out 3:20-4:25, some goods words by Joel http://edm.com/articles/2015-12-14/deadmau5-beiber-skrillex-video