[waspight]

I dont get the hate. What are the options anyway? For a single author that want to make some money, Medium is probably the most convenient service. I suspect that it would be much harder to make money by hosting your own Wordpress blog for instance.

[krapp]

A blog shouldn't be a business model anyway. If you're good enough to attract and keep an audience, literally any other venue for writing work is probably more lucrative than blogging. Writing scripts and making Youtube videos would probably make more money.