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Why Medium Should Bring The Partner Payment Program To an End Immediately…
Every writer should read this…..
The squeeze is on and the pips have finally squeaked.
And our beloved platform has had to make the changes which we thought would never happen.
For those who are new to the Medium Partner Program, they have the misfortune of not knowing better times, when this space was seriously awash with venture capital and private equity cash and the gatekeepers were not afraid to spend it on half-decent writers.
The likes of Jessica Wildfire, Shannon Ashley, Indi Ca and Umair Haque were some of the biggest beneficiaries.
And when I decided, out of pure jealousy, to join the gravy train at the end of 2020, I was slightly taken aback by the rewards and incentives offered by Ev Williams.
Those with slightly long memories will remember the May-August windfall of 2021, when the best read writers were given 500 dollars bonus.
And some of us were foolish to think that it would last forever.
By end of 2022, it was apparent that all wasn’t well and the first sign was the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank.
When I wrote an article back then outlining the potential fall-out from the unravelling of a major…