I agree that some people can pull it off, I just think there are ways of "gaming the system" on Hive and I wouldn't want to see large swaths of people who are like:
"Well, I start my day with my daily reflections post, then I head over to the food tribe where I talk about my dinner from the night before, then I bang out a good book review in another tribe, followed by some photos of my daily walk. Then at night before I settle in I talk crypto in with the leo finance folks. As long as I add two photos and 700 words I can earn about $20-40 per post."
This does happen lol.
Putting your efforts into one (or maybe two) massively useful posts per day is likely the optimum.
Yeah I agree.
So where can one earn 0.10 per word doing freelance writing?
The venues are shrinking in number since managers started asking for "content" to fill up boxes instead of wanting actual writers, but they still exist (especially technical writing, or where the writer is expected to know SEO etc). A lot of places moved to a flat-rate so to earn a good rate it is about being fast and knowing the rules. This isn't just because they want to squeeze value for money though, it is good now in the digital era that we don't have to arbitrarily match column inches and word counts.