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Requires to? No. Pays “very large, much larger than I would have thought possible”[1] amounts of money to? Yes.

Power to the guy, though. He’s earned it.

Substack is less garbage than Wordpress (which I stopped using a few years ago when they brought in their new editor).

Yeah. Scott writes well enough he should be working for the New York Times.

The irony of saying this when Scott got into a multi-year long debacle because the NYT threatened (and then eventually did) dox him.

Out of the endless streams of garbage on the interwebz, Substack is the last place I’d call out.

EH, regarding blogging platforms, it’s better than Medium obviously, but it’s still way worse than Wordpress.