What If Waiters And Medium Writers Calculated Their Wages Similarly

How I made USD 200 in just two hours on medium — Most posts like these lack a basic understanding of economics.

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The my article went viral post

I am genuinely happy for people if they have an article that performs well. Many share their enthusiasm by writing a little post about it, which typically reads somewhat like this:

• I recently had my first article go viral
• I have written a bunch of articles that did not go viral, but finally, this one here did
• During its first month on the platform, it was seen by 4,000 people
• It took me two hours to write and edit the article
• I made USD 200 so far in partner program earnings from this article
• That is the equivalent of an unbelievable hourly wage of USD 100
• Medium is so awesome — Only here can I make that kind of money
• I will keep writing to cash in that kind of hourly wage

I find this line of reasoning pretty lacklustre.

What if waiters were more like medium writers