I would love more transparency. How much is Medium paying out? How many paying members do we have? How many people are making under $100? How many are making a grand per month? Or more? I want to know that there are people here doing well. I don’t want this to be The Medium Hobby Writers Club. Hobby writers are welcome, but if we want the world to pay money to read our work — if we want a reputation as a place where the reading is worthwhile, thought-provoking and bingeable — there need to be serious, full-time writers here, too. And serious writers have to pay mortgages and buy groceries like everyone else. If we are going to be able to find time to work hard at our writing every day, we can’t be spending 60 hours per week performing outside jobs. I’ll add — I need to post nearly every day to make the money here work. My earnings drop like a rock otherwise. I can never take a deep breath. Posting only three times a week would be better.