Law Of (All The Wrong) Attraction
Manifesting A 92% Pay Cut
What have we all been doing wrong?
Many of us Medium writers were strolling along rather nicely through August and September, writing our stories and making some money. We were exuding optimism, expecting these new Medium earning rate changes would last more than just seven pathetic weeks.
Stars were aligned, and we were all imagining a couple of lattes a day, along with some help for our living expenses.
Coach Tony wrote for Better Humans and was not your typical CEO. He was one of us: kind, patient, a listener, transparent, and respectful.
He wasn’t the type of CEO to gaslight you, stonewall you, slash your earnings without so much of an apology or explanation, except to tell you that the majority of you are fakes who are gaming the system and manufacturing engagement.
With so much going right, what could possibly go wrong?
Everything, apparently. What writers were soon to discover, is that all this time we were unwittingly manifesting a gigantic earnings crash on Sept 25th.
If that wasn’t bad enough, we then collectively manifested a few gaslighting emails from Medium Corp about fraudulent activity, back pay, and a vague assurance everything has been fixed, all in the face of a permanent 92% pay cut.
Hey writers, what’s wrong with our vibrational frequency?
Are we all wearing baseball caps that say, GO RIGHT AHEAD AND FUCK ME OVER or EXPLOIT ME PLEASE ’CAUSE I ENJOY IT or LIE TO ME, BABY or I’M A WRITER AND I EXPECT TO BE TREATED LIKE SHIT?
In what can only be described as a free volunteer public relations campaign for Death Star Corp, some writers even publicly applauded this sick treatment like it was a gift from the heavens:
Oh look, Medium is doing the right thing and promising some of us a little bit of back pay for a problem they are pretending was fixed two weeks ago! 🥰
I mean, this was a whole new level of manifestation, self-deception, and sadomasochism. It was a kind of twisted enabling of an abusive relationship, as if to say:
Go ahead Daddy, beat me harder and harder! I enjoy it! You’re so good to me. I love it when you drink! Lie to me, baby!
Yes, this was dark stuff, calling for some powerful AA intervention. But many writers were allergic to reality and preferred a manifestation solution.
So a whole gaggle of writers decided to meet in a secret prayer room that was believed to have vibrational advantages.
Huddled together, one determined-looking writer piped up:
Clearly, this is all on us. We’ve been unconsciously manifesting the wrong vibrational frequency. We thought we were manifesting abundance and wealth but were instead manifesting abundant punishment and cruelty.
So what is the solution? asked another bewildered writer. And this new emerging leader of writers shot the questioner an insanely focused glance of pure, unadulterated sublimity, announcing:
GRATITUDE! Be grateful. Thank your abusers for your one dollar stories. Put your pennies on a little altar, light a candle, and whisper a thousand sweet THANK YOU’s for making any money at all. This, this is the secret of the law of attraction!
Either from awe or from an even more extreme form of total bewilderment, the room of writers sat in stunned wide-eyed silence.
Meanwhile, back here on Earth, Medium stories were still producing pennies with no explanation or change is sight.
© Carlo Zeno 2023
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Thanks for reading. Here is a more serious piece breaking down the unofficial, unannounced, undiscussed, permanent 92% pay cut on Medium below👇
And here are two more pieces by R C Hammond and Mariana Busarova asking the tough questions about the current fog of war state that is Medium:
Thank you, Grandma Smillew.
