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>>Real writers have day jobs.

True, there are actually some real writers worth reading on substack, but imo, not enough of them, and even less of them that I would be willing to pay to read - heck, I won't even pay to read a newspaper online anywhere as you can get it almost all for free someplace else with a few clicks.

Seems like an attempt to monetize free blogs, problem is, there are still plenty of other free blogs to read - they haven't gone away.

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Substack is also a way to financially support writers and artists who have been pushed out of traditional media, or are too niche to fit in mass market publications.

It would help writers and readers if Substack bundled groups of writers together, perhaps by genre/type/subject like a magazine, and for the current cost of one subscription newsletter have 5 newsletters that the subscriber/paying customer can choose to assemble to create their personal "magazine." This would allow the reader to financially support more writers/artists, which would allow more of them to continue publishing their work and grow.

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