I wonder, and I hesitate to wonder like this out loud, because it is the paranoid part of my mind speaking …but… by curating the same names repeatedly those names earn more on Medium, some of those names then write articles about ‘how to earn X with a single Medium article’, which drives others to pay Medium to write….

Medium is blessed in that it is not ad-driven, but it certainly calculates to maximise eyes on screens, which is perhaps not what we always need more of.

Now to go from paranoid to hypocrite — obviously, my stories could do with more eyes on screen! ;)