I earn a full time living here. That said, it's a combination of Medium earnings, and Medium readers who contribute to me monthly or make single donations through Patreon and Ko-fi. I also need to point out, though, that my current living expenses are very low, and that when I switch countries, they will increase threefold, and then Medium will no longer support me financiallly.

As such I'm going back to writing fictin.

My work is not longer distributed, and I think there are two possible reasons. Focus is on 'growing writers' and distributing their work. Someone up there has there has the mistaken belief that the only reason people aren't read is because they aren't distributed, so they are giving 'wannabe's the opportunity.

I also suspect they aren't readers, because if they were, they would be able to tell that thes people can't write.