Substack has done an excellent job of showcasing how much writers need editors. I live my life in between the two awful worlds of programmers who have never had

Substack has done an excellent job of showcasing how much writers need editors. I live my life in between the two awful worlds of programmers who have never had a humanities class and are therefore functionally illiterate, and writers who are so fearful of technology and are unable to move past the need for a "platform." The publishers that most writers adore would never profit from white supremacy, yet they are fine with a middleman, no different than airbnb and Uber, that has no publishing standards because self-publishing on a blog or something similar is some antiquated symbol of failure in the modern literary mind.