You can also see her telegraphing this a little bit in her defensiveness about Substack and her constant complaining about how hard it is to get paid as a journalist and how she deserves so much more money. Which, again, not wrong, and people should not have been critical of her for pointing it out, but also, if your worldview is that you _personally_ deserve more money rather than deserving more money for your role as a quality journalist, then "pivot to grifting" is just the next logical step.