I'd stop reading posts about Medium, so I missed Liberty's story. Thanks for the link...

Well, I read it. I hope she gets paid. It seems to me the M goes through cycles--pay writers, stop paying them, start again but pay them less. Pay writers a little bit, stop paying them, start again but pay them less than before... Eventually M will figure out how few pennies it takes to keep writers writing. I hope I'm wrong, and that they share their profits with the people who make the platform--the writers. But...