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F*ck You Pay Me
Entertainers, artists, and writers are often taken advantage of and it’s unfortunately no different on this platform
Imagine a platform that preaches equality and inclusivity, being biased, judgemental, and exclusionary. One where they rope you in by dangling a carrot on a string in front of you, but you’re never quite able to reach out and grab it. Yet that very same platform has the audacity to send you emails every month informing you of all those who brought home a bag of carrots in that 30 day period — but all you were given was a bag of dirt.
You don’t have to imagine ladies and gentleman, because you are here. Welcome to Medium, where the CEO regularly finds new and innovative ways to feed off the souls of writers and has the nerve to call them Betas and improvements.
I am here to inform you all one last time, this platform will not suddenly decide to drastically change directions and start splitting the lions share of profits with writers — you know, the people who are responsible for those profits in the first place.
Sure, they’ll overpay a handful of the circus acts who make nice, play by the rules and share their overly liberal ideologies — but they will do it at the expense of the ‘little guy’ if you will. They’ll do so to the detriment of writers…
