Hi Marley,

I feel Medium treats us the way Uber treats their drivers, and honestly, the way most if not all corporations treat their employees. As disposable.

My wife just got a job as a Nurse Practitioner, today she found out her contracts are 6 months long and they renew them or not. I mean, she works for a Level 1 trauma center, the only one in the state, and the way you feel is that you are going into a marriage in which your husband is allowed to sleep around but you can not even text your sister.

And Medium is doing the same.

There are good writers here. I think you are one of them. But if someone wants to get gas money, you need to write like crazy about anything.

I once saw this viral post on how to be successful or something like that with 50k claps. They were all 1–2 sentences paragraph but the last one which had 3. I get it, we all want to be successful, but then half the platform is writing stuff like that we all know doesn’t work (I already dress sharp, well no, and I need a haircut. That’s why I am not successful).

And new followers, everyone who is new searches how to be successful in Medium. Then they find articles that tell you follow and comment. Well, I guess it is super easy to follow, and often people don’t bother even clapping for your most recent piece.

Unfortunately it seems that Medium has stop being a place to communicate and reach an audience. I guess if someone is a racist can hide the same and tell you irrational stuff for not good reason.

The question is how to migrate away from here. Because to be honest at least in the poetry section is poets reading poets.

We build our own site?

How do we tell a world fixated on quick fixes that change requires work and to open our eyes?

How do we assign value to the work of the artist when the platform is fixated on producing a half decent celebrity so they can be the YouTube of the magazine at the doctors office?

Medium is just acting like the rest of society. No different.

What are your ideas?

I mean, the problem is that Medium knows outside the platform is the Wild West of blogs.

Pablo