I increasingly think of substack as an experiment in progressive taxation. It’s hard to justify ceding 10% except as an indirect subsidy for new writers (under 500 subscribers, mailchimp’ s free limit). If I’m right, it should develop an interesting natural left bias as it grows.
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Correction, *over* 500 subscribers, but under a few thousand
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The biggest value an intermediary adds for more serious creators now is GDPR and EU tax compliance. Otherwise technically, accepting payments now is increasingly trivial with Stripe.
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What I’m waiting for now is a bolt-on paywall with integrated access control that works on an arbitrarily structured static site hosted anywhere. My ideal setup would be a no-code digital ocean server running paywalled gatsby where I check in writing as .md and pay for a CDN.
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Ghost is same abstraction level as substack. If I move it will be lower down.
