Are free readers parasites on Substack?

Some writers get frustrated when readers don't pay for a subscription, but free readers support writers in different ways

So I was browsing the Substack app this morning and ran into a post by Rurik Skywalker (formerly Rolo of the Slavlands). Rurik’s post excoriated free readers for not paying for a subscription in a very direct way by calling for a general strike by writers:

But I was wrong. I was terribly wrong again. I had forgotten just how shameless and greedy the casu…