Some fiction pubs are supportive communities and you can see 1,000 claps coming from 20 writers/readers (20x50=1,000), but the number of views is 27 total.
And if you’re not part of the supportive community, you get 7 views.

The best strategy at the moment (for money) is to write stories for the boost. Anything else rarely gets distributed and pays 4 or 5 times less everything else equal.