[politelemon]

Not everything in life is binary the way you portray. They did not choose to use substack out of altruism, nor did they choose to fully exploit everyone as much as possible (they might have gone with apple pay themselves if that were the case). There can be in between zones were people are writing to reach readers and make some money from it, not as much as possible.

The last paragraph is patently untrue, it's used as a clever gotcha for transactive capitalist interactions (assuming it can only be this way and no other), completely ignoring the human elements.

[adithyassekhar]

I should make it clear I'm not saying substack was morally in the right here. Nor do I side with apple in any way. I'm pointing the obvious.

Honestly, I just can't see this as the little guy vs the corpo image this post is trying to make. Just two capitalistic ideas fighting one another. The people writing on here must have better paying jobs for their livelihood. The authors are treating their blogs as business which turns off the part of my brain with human emotional concerns.

Life isn't binary, but our choices often are.