actually, what the idiot said is he'd be happy to operate on a 1% profit margin

I'm done wasting any time and energy trying to make sense of his and writers' nonsense.

All of this dollar chasing and entitlement is ruining the experience. Almost four years ago, when I'd been here a few months and I experienced for the first time a writers revolt over paywall changes, I wrote that anyone looking at Medium as a place to make money is looking in the wrong place. https://medium.com/illumination/is-medium-a-malignant-narcissist-1f3d55793bf6 Maybe now the legit people trying to make money and the scammers trying to make money will all go away