Interesting perspective and scribe is a less insulting alternative than 'typist' which suggests people aren't thinking at all.

I am a freelance writer for magazines and frankly, reprints of my journalistic articles and interviews often flop, while my opinions can do very well. So there's room for scribes on Medium. Indeed, if the bosses didn't think so, they'd set tests or ban them.

Interesting that you say it's happening everywhere - so perhaps the masses are entertained by opinions, or it might be that budgets don't stretch to investigative journalism.

My Medium income is too much of a gamble to spend very long writing a story, just for this platform. It might only make 12c. I know some of my clients cannot afford anything that takes more than a day or two to create either. And, as you rightly point out, chips are popular.

Fortunately, I can't stand reading or writing on politics, so at least no one gets that from me, although I was attacked last week for *not* reading someone else's divisive articles on US politics. I'm not even American.

But some of my stories may offer some direction to fixing problems, so there's that. Am I a writer or a scribe? Perhaps a bit of both. Thanks for sharing.