It is for authors like me writing on Medium, to have a way of getting paid. There is a need for both paid and free content. But reality is that you cannot produ

It is for authors like me writing on Medium, to have a way of getting paid. There is a need for both paid and free content. But reality is that you cannot produce quality content if everything has to be free. Advertisement is one solution, but one not without its own serious drawbacks. Medium is a like a magazine with a very large number of journalists which it pays to write for it. Naturally it needs to charge subscribers to make an income.