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I Made More Selling a Happy Meal Toy on eBay Than I Did on Medium Last Month
As hustles go, there’s no contest
4 min readMar 27, 2023
The time has come for many of us to realize we won’t make much money on Medium unless the platform adjusts the way it pays for content in our favor. Some people are doing okay, but they are in the minority. Which category do you fall into?
The good old days
Even in the glory days for Medium writers of a couple of years ago, when you could score juicy bonuses without much effort, only 8% of us made over $100 a month. Considering how many stories we had to pump out to attain membership in the “$100 Club,” it was pathetic even then.
Today, people write 30 stories a month that don’t come near that figure. Sure, there are exceptions, but for most, Medium has become a sweatshop where we toil for pennies an hour, if that.
