> They do no work, take all the profit, and obstruct research and the spread of knowledge. Those are some of the worst scums of capitalism.
Amen. Pure rent seeking parasites.
Amen. Pure rent seeking parasites.
Journals without fees (or lower fees) are available. Why don’t researchers publish in those?
Presumably because the journals that charge high fees offer something the lower cost ones don’t.
Charging for network effects is rent seeking.
So it's not that.