"They monetize your content and you get nothing" is such a cliche and mislead rhetoric that it's kind of annoying. Especially because it always comes with some

"They monetize your content and you get nothing" is such a cliche and mislead rhetoric that it's kind of annoying. Especially because it always comes with some condescending tone telling people what to do implying they know better than the "dumb public". When people write on sites like Medium or Facebook or Twitter, they know exactly what they're getting into, thank you very much. They're not some idiots who get "tricked" into being taken advantage of. They still do it because they DO get something in return. And guess what? Your content is probably worth shit anyway. Just take a look at some of the popular posts on medium. They're just bullshit content and these people would have had no chance at getting that much attention in their life if it wasn't for Medium. I'm not saying Medium is full of bullshit content (although most of them are), even the better quality content is not worth that much. They probably spent a couple of hours writing that, based on what they heard somewhere else. These effortless content should be taken at face value. They're just expressions. Sites like Medium provide a plaza where you can express yourself and get attention, but not all expressions are worth money. In fact most expressions are not worth it. Do you really want to make money with content? Stop whining about how you can't make money with blogging, just think of blogging as a way to gain attention, and do something that's much more high value with the attention you aggregated, such as writing a book, building some tangible thing, or anything that deserves to be not forgotten. Otherwise your content deserves to be forgotten.