I respect your opinion and am glad someone brought up the other side. I also feel that writers in countries where it's impossible to earn money because of Stripe (though I though I saw something about a workaround maybe? Maybe for some countries and not others?) that they should be given more stories each month to read since they can't earn. This would give them more of an opportunity to support other writers without there being a pay barrier when they wont be able to earn like other writers. I think when I talked about this I said they should get 10 stories a month free which would let even those who couldn't afford a membership take part in the Medium community to some extent while nor discouraging others from joining to gain access to everything.