Working for the platform every night and day

Yes, it is terrible what we do, but

"It's my work" he'd say, "and I do it for pay
And when it's over I'd just as soon go on my way"

Hurricane - Bob Dylan

I don’t know many writers who use platforms like this (Substack, Medium or Patreon) who enjoy the business side of being here. It can be hard to ask people to pay for your work, even obliquely via a “subscribe” button, and even if everybody understands that what is being produced is work and that people should be paid for their work.

And yes, being “paid for your work” itself might mean you are a victim of capitalist hegemony, which, some argue, makes you part of “the problem”, but, hey, we all have to live in the world as we find it, even as we argue for something better.