This is true. Our explicit advice to writers is make your best stuff free. Paid subscriptions unleash writers. With Substack, they can get reach *and* the ability to go deep with the truly interested.https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1305164174637506561 …
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Because can’t feed one steak to a million people
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You can't feed one quality article to a million people either :D Mass media needed advertising and the chokepoint of the printing press to sustain it. The broader the target audience, the more you have to give up on precision of what you want to say, and to whom.
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Sustainable long-term economic relationships tend to limit status gradients. Patronage motives take you closer to Patreon type cultures, where eventually audiences begin to expect political payback.
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