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.
Why participate in the pursuit and sharing of knowledge when you can consoom™️
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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.
That’s not the argument the user is making, though. Unless I misunderstood you (or the screenshot)
It came across as sarcasm to me.
It’s obviously sarcasm, but people can get more upshits by pretending to not know and write a pissy comment ‘reproving’ the sarcastic comment.
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.