This not a blank check. There are plenty of shitty books and great blogs (well, admittedly, not that many great blogs) but more of a comment on value as a promise of fulfillment. Value is not a number. It's a mutation or a glitch that breaks the script That's where the real juice is.

In real life, $100 spent on Thomas Pynchon's books barely equals 1.5 years of a Substack subscription. Not all writers offer the same ROI, but it's a clear comparison. *Not advocating Spotify for writers being paid $0.006 per page, despite the hype around certain bloggers.