I did wonder if this is true about writers being a primary source of income here and it’s not. You are right though that we don’t think we can grow a subscription business just on volume of supply. Hopefully that’s no surprise since I’ve been saying something similar since day one: the bar was going up so that the reward for meeting the bar could also go up. We used to be a site of just hobbyist writers. Then we got swarmed by high volume writers who thought they could grind out a living here. Our fault? I’m sure. But the bar for making a living as a writer should be as high on Medium as it is everywhere else. It actually is higher here because a lot of the great writers here care most about distribution (consider people writing about their profession and how much they end up getting paid by boosting their career).