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The single biggest thing Substack accomplished was *legitimizing* a Schelling point: interesting intellectuals can charge money for doing their thing and people who interested in the life of the mind should pay for their output. The Schelling point, the place at which these two groups would choose to meet without any coordination mechanism, was the writer’s Substack.

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