Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.
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They were discussing requiring a large one time fee to access whatever academic database they were running so teachers and professors who only needed one article or something couldn’t “get away with spending less”.
Moved onto commiserating about how online schooling because of COVID has cut into their profits because they couldn’t force as many people to get print editions.
They discussed potentially leasing by the page to schools and charging fees per student view.
those people are irredeemably corrupted and should be dumped in the ocean.
absolute scum.
I knew a guy who spent 10 years in academia, then realized the pay is awful and became a software engineer. Now he's a Musk fanboy with major brainworms, and his main hobby is "investment"
Stemlords, man.
Maybe his stocks will plummet some day and he'll have to grow a brain
The existence of the academic publishing industry and the nature of its political economy is just another dead canary for capitalism
I hope they lose sleep at night knowing how hated they are, and are eternally tired and run down because of it.
Do you need an alibi, comrade?
Bills Hicks was right