Roy
Roy
Nov 2 · 1 min read

The new pay program has reduced my earnings by half. No way in hell I’ll reach a hundred bucks a month unless I pump out more than a story a day and I’m not OK with that. I reckon even four-figure earners are feeling it too. (I unblocked one writer I consider odious and found they doubled their daily production this week. That’s 4–5 how-to-be-me and let’s-talk-fucking stories blessing these pages. I was sure to remember to re-block.)

So what to do?

Not a damn thing, Lon. I started this when there was no money to be had, and it was fun. Frankly, I wish the $ would go away. I believe it would be good for content.

Mostly I wish Medium would reinstate its no-pay policy on writers using Medium as a topic. No offense to you, sir. Your take on the platform is always thought-provoking with some impressive analysis and research to boot, but yours could live without the M-word and it’d stand on its own as a study in the psychology of social media. Other posts glutting the site are the same crap about earning big dollars or the bitchings o’ the day. (OK, I kind of like some of the clever bitchings.)

In this hunger game for read time and claps and highlights and burps and whatever the hell, you better believe we’ll be getting a fuck-ton more stories with Medium as the message.

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    "Hi. My name is Roy." - Now that just sounds stupid. (thehappysidestep@gmail.com)