Some of us just enjoy the process of writing - writing blogs for money is meh. Writing scripts/fictiton for money is fun. Do I make money from my writing on Medium? Sure. Do I make more than $2 an hour, probably not. Do I care? Not really. I could think of nothing worse than having to write multiple low-value articles aimed at telling people how to make money from writing all day every day. Even if I got very good at it. Money is a terrible motivator for writers and a great motivator for self-help psychology porn. The secret of the top 1.15% of writers is simple. They aren't writing this sort of content. See Martin McDonagh, Quentin Tarrantino and JK Rowling for more on this. :o)