HORSE STALL MAT ECONOMY

I Have Become A Friend of Medium!

May I buy your kinship during this season of sharing?

If you don’t feel this every time I read, clap, or comment, then you aren’t experiencing our friendship correctly. Photo by Nicola Fioravanti on Unsplash

In the beginning — M had copious venture capital money and it was good. But writers ate of the tree of knowledge and learned how to do churn out cheap and easy follow-for-follow stories. It was not good. In fact, it was rotten, shitty garbage that degraded the platform. Instead of dealing with the shittiness, the Entity Bar was terminated by the powers that be. A patsy was needed, after all.

Then M, it in its infinite and undying wisdom, created a tiered system. The Eloi and the Morlocks. The Standard Membership and the free-tier of the Partner Program. It was kind of good. But it wasn’t enough — Coach Tony needed a new house, a log splitter axe, and some horse stall mats with which to lift heavy to the tunes of international muzak superstar Taylor Swift.

So Tony and the gang (Ariel and that alliterative fellow, I guess) invented the Friend Tier over afternoon margs. The initial idea of the Friend Tier was initially drafted after Tony became aware of a common children’s cereal called “Lucky Charms”. He noticed the heart was one of the marshmallow symbols on the box, in addition to the star (regular membership). The Friend Tier also made it more likely that an author is human because…