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Why This New $50,000 Medium Writers Challenge Is Problematic

Why This New $50,000 Medium Writers Challenge Is Problematic

Even though it features Natalie Portman

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Jul 29, 2021
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Why This New $50,000 Medium Writers Challenge Is Problematic
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Yesterday evening (in Germany) I read a post by Medium. 3 minutes about a new Medium writers challenge in August that gives participants the chance to win $50,000.

Wow.

Shortly afterward, I enjoyed reading Kristina God’s thoughts about it in her post “You Can Win $50,000 On Medium”.

Great news was my first reaction to all of this. And it is.

But I thought about it some more and found a few problematic aspects about this new challenge.

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