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WHY THIS PLACE WILL DIE SOMEDAY SOON

I'm with ya, Geoff. I just started seriously putting my words online using Medium and here - duplicating everything! That's nuts. Now, a writer has to write and maintain his words in multiple places?!? I used to get paid directly from a REAL publisher, not this techBro fake publishing crap, at a rate of at least 10-20-50-100 cents per word, whatever even more, why would I even care to remember things like that). And when I used to write something, I'd send it and forget about it, the healthy usual way to write back in the 90s, and as done since the finger found media in a cave somewhere.

Both these platforms will fail because they will never be able to support a writer's living wage, no matter how many stacks or mediums the words flow to. And I am sorry, I read the ones that MUST be getting the very big bucks because of "love" counts, and I don't get it. My bet is the algo is rigging the game. And why not? The internet looks like a giant casino from where I sit (in a jungle, in Nepal).

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