Don't underestimate how tiny frictions shape human interaction, they’re a powerful force. If they created a functionality that allowed someone with money to spare to open locked content for everyone, we'd all win in exchange (readers can read it, creator gets paid, Substack gets paid, a person with extra cash gets to do a good deed whose effect on the world is automatically felt). Also, Substack takes the lowest cut of any platform of its kind, we should be grateful they don't take 30%. Also, that cut is their rightful share for creating and maintaining the ecosystem from which you are writing nonsense. It's so easy to criticize everything…