We are like minded. I read, or stopped reading, so many stories about followers and reads and making money on Medium--to each their own but it's to the point that they disgust me. and now this bull shit with affiliate marketing, which takes the money from new subscriptions out of the MPP pool that rewarded reads...anyway I digress--I write to make a difference and every time I get a follower at least I know that in that moment something I wrote, whether in a story or just as often in a meaningful engagement with another's story, made a difference in someone's life. Which is why I wrote this story here: https://medium.com/the-pom/dizain-of-suicide-72bcde4dc8d8