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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.

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[–] a_little_red_rat@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] iByteABit@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

Maybe his stocks will plummet some day and he'll have to grow a brain

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago

those people are irredeemably corrupted and should be dumped in the ocean.

absolute scum.

[–] Hexboare@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

The existence of the academic publishing industry and the nature of its political economy is just another dead canary for capitalism

[–] CommunistBear@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago
[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

I hope they lose sleep at night knowing how hated they are, and are eternally tired and run down because of it.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

Do you need an alibi, comrade?

[–] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

Bills Hicks was right