Everyone chiming in that, "I am no hemingway," well duh I don't write fiction. I also didn't write the piece. Quote marks exist. The stated rate is for his REPORTING. And for context it is super common to be paid as little as .50 a word from your favorite fancy publications

Muting this now because y'all just are haters and think it's fine for people to be paid poorly and then wonder why journalism is so heavily populated by people who come from extreme wealth!

Also, the piece is very clear that for this to be justified, it would mean that not a single person freelancing for magazines in the last 20 years was even a quarter as good as Hemingway