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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Why participate in the pursuit and sharing of knowledge when you can consoom™️

[–] [email protected] 72 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes, that pursuit and sharing of knowledge known as "paying a shitload of money for the privilege of making a company that ultimately provides nothing of value some extra cash"

I didn't know ml is cool with ultracapitalism as long as it's under the veneer of knawlege.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Needs to start OpenArticles.com, and then you get credits for peer reviewing others work that you can use to publish your own work.

Just need to validate your identity and qualifications.... Which can also be a job for someone like a peer review.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's not the argument the user is making, though. Unless I misunderstood you (or the screenshot)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It came across as sarcasm to me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

It's obviously sarcasm, but people can get more upshits by pretending to not know and write a pissy comment 'reproving' the sarcastic comment.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

The point of the OP is not that we should abandon science in the name of consumerism.

It is that for-profit entities that happen to drive scientific communication put profits above all else, including, ironically, scientific communication.

Scientists should not be expected to pay the price of a car to have their articles published, that discourages sharing important discoveries where they can be noted. And the worst part - there's nothing causing it but greed.