There are two kind of authors at Medium. There are those who try to earn money directly from their writing and those who just want to write and maybe monetize i

There are two kind of authors at Medium. There are those who try to earn money directly from their writing and those who just want to write and maybe monetize in other ways, maybe not monetize at all just make their writing a gift to the humanity. The second kind of authors hate the paywall. What is worse is that there is a negative selection among those who want to earn from their writing - those who really know writing try to get into real journalism and the Medium authors are mostly those who try to earn money. That is not to say that there are no good writers, just last week I have eventually paid the Medium membership only because one author, but I am disappointed about the whole package. I presume there is better stuff written by the fist type of authors who write because they want to say something - but they are not recommended by Medium because they don't want the paywall. So being recommended is mostly a negative sign - it is often even written quite well - but with no depth. I really wish Medium all the best - because the traditional media are failing and we as society, we have to find a way to support journalists. But the Medium experiment is probably failed one.