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Life outside Substack.
Journalist Maggie Mertens chats with other writers about their experience leaving Substack — and escaping its tax:
Big tech companies control so much of the infrastructure of our lives, and they maximize that by relying on the fact that we will gravitate toward whatever is easiest and fastest, whatever provides the “better” experience, even if that better but immediate experience is worse for us as a society in the long run.
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