Good Lord. I've written over 230 articles here on Medium and maybe they have distributed 10 of them. If you look on my profile you'll see the "big earner" and I doubt too many people would like to have the experience that made the writing possible. This business had a good starting idea. But it's gone the way of most Silicon Valley stuff. I don't blame the scammers. They probably see it as easy money, the material that is promoted is so thoughtless, derivative, and poor.