When I take a mere gist of my article from here and post it on LinkedIn, it gets 50X more views there than the entire article does here on Medium.

The article is the gold package. The LinkedIn post is the silver package. When more people are opting for the silver package instead of the gold, the problem clearly is with the means of distribution (the platform) and the marketing (algorithm), not with the creator.

Seriously, what the fuck is the point of writing big ass articles, adding images, links, research, etc, if it gets 1/50th the views of a copy-pasted text only LinkedIn post containing just the gist of an article?

I'm grateful for the partner program but I'm also confident enough as a writer to know that I'm good at this and fucking deserve better.