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I'm not sure who this is directed at. A more interesting question is, does Substack expand the number of people who can support themselves by writing vs a world without it? I personally spend over $1k/yr on Substack; sometimes because I get great value out of the paid posts, and more often because I want to author to keep working in an area I care about.

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> I personally spend over $1k/yr on SubstacK

I imagine your photo might be up on a "whales" board back at Substack HQ, and the growth team might refer to you by name in their weekly meetings when they hypothesise on how to attract more like you.

If there's one universal truth about whales, it's that there's always a bigger fish. Every time I've heard about a real-life whale, I've been out by multiple orders of magnitude from my wildest guess.

And yes I know whales are mammals but facts don't get in the way of puns.

I liked the use of "whale."

I'm just not one. Or the addictive type, either. I had rotator cuff surgery last month, and a couple people joked, "Oh, you get these really good drugs for the pain!"

I had Percocet (oxycodone + ibuprofen). It did nothing for me; no high at all. I wonder if there's a connection.

These are really good. I had them after removing my wisdom teeth (less than easy operation as they came out horizontally) I stopped taking them as soon as the pain subsides because I understand why someone can be addicted to them. The pain just vanishes a few moment after ingestion.

I think individuals vary. For me, they just dulled the pain; they didn't eliminate it.

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