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They got us by the balls
(lemmy.world)
Context (for those who might not be in academia): many academic publishing companies (like Elsevier) charge exorbitant prices for researchers to get their papers published as open access. Meanwhile, none of these researchers actually get anything in return for it (except for major street cred if their papers get highly cited)
Until the world accepts that certain bloodlines should just be purged, progress is impossible.