Great views and perspective from a teacher's standpoint. Although I think (from all the $500 stories I've read so far) that Medium had a strange way of selecting the 1000 - it wasn't surely the top earners - it was a black box but deff. not just the most successful - my genuine hope is that IF this was a one-off its a band-aid, but if this is coming up for more months - it is an incentive for others to fight for that top 1000 position for May and so on...and can be healthy - and of course it is a NewsBreak counter move too