wOOt! for reinforcement schedules! and lab rats/guinea pigs/readers/writers on Medium!

And above all, artificial reinforcers! (Covered in your previous story.) Pay me to do it and I'll start treating it like work, even if I used to do it for the joy of it.

It explains a lot. Like why I'm still writing here--for payoffs ranging from $1000+ to $2--instead of looking for an agent for my novel or journals to publish my poetry or even teaching gigs.