Substack Journalism doesn't (currently) pay

True for all on here I'd suggest, even those with 1,000s of subscribers

I mean I completely understand as I too have limited my paid subscriptions to around 6 out of 50 or so at this stage. On a non-limited blog like this paid subscriptions are even lower than that for example it’s about 3% on this blog at the moment. You’d need about 40,000 subscriptions on that ratio to make a teacher’s salary. I don’t see too many of those blogs around and the ones that are in that region, well those writing them probably want a little more than 5k a month in salary I’d suggest. Some of them look like they’re putting in more than 24 hour days with the content that’s on them (i.e. they’re getting paid help). Maybe by limiting content to paid subscribers you can increase that ratio mentioned above but I still have problems with that, you’d need already to have 10s of thousands of subscribers to be able to do that without turning your blog into a dead zone.

Why am I mentioning this? I’ve been putting in several hours a day on this blog for a few months now. That is not som…