Not one to argue with your logic...BUT...all it takes is a single story per month to make up 80% of your earnings. Now, while every story is clicking up $3 a day...the odd one is making huge numbers.

The 5% come from the early days 2018/19 when Medium published monthly those earning over $100.

Yesterday I had a story make $32 in a day.

I'm not a big fish...a tiny sardine if you like, but even I regularly score over $200 a month.

Roz Warren makes $15 a day.

There are many others too.