The Billionaire's Typewriter
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  By Paul Robert Lloyd
  <https://v2.paulrobertlloyd.com/2015/03/the_billionaires_typewriter>
  Tuesday, 24 March 2015

Matthew Butterick's scrutiny of Medium reveals it to be "a form of human fracking":

> In ["Death to Typewriters,"][1] Medium insists that the typewriter is its "sworn enemy." In certain typographic details, maybe so. But as a device that imposes homogeneous design, Medium still has a lot in common with the typewriter.
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> In fact, its ethics are actually _worse_ than the traditional typewriter. Why? Because Medium's homogeneous design has nothing to do with limitations of the underlying technology (in this case, the web)... it's a deliberate choice that lets Medium extract value from the talent and labor of others.

Convenience always has a cost.

[1]: https://medium.com/designing-medium/death-to-typewriters-9b7712847639