D. Commercial Aspects of Simple Writings
Our brain doesn’t work in two ways. So if a reader is investing less time, emotion, attention, cognition, and energy into reading something, the reader’s urge to read is less. If a reader continues to read such less simple pieces where he doesn’t have to invest anything, then when the author intends to monetize the writing, such readers will also not invest any money in acquiring the paid writing, because the readers don’t need to read that. When they got something simple for free, they took that free. It was a bonus for the readers, which served their greed of “reading something” but not necessarily serving any of their real needs.
One may sell sand to people living in a sea beach, when such people advise the seller because they are familliar with sand, but a sand seller in a sea beach will not earn a living out of it, because no one living in the sea beach needs that sand.
In the same way, when someone advises an author to write easily and simply, they are doing so because they are familiar with reading some sentences here and there, some unnecessary essays to feel that they are reading and learning “something.”
When authors and readers are investing less time and effort in reading and writing, they are not emotionally attached to the essays, and anything that we are not emotionally attached to, we don’t care about. Anything we don’t care about, we don’t invest in.
Always remember, there is no such thing as passion. We all have to survive, and for that, we need food and money. Anything that doesn’t hold a promise of feeding us fades away from our lives.