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Hurra, Elsevier are a band of crooks, they have way more profit margin than giants like google and apple, science does good by moving away from them.
by sudoaza 8y ago
Hurra, Elsevier are a band of crooks, they have way more profit margin than giants like google and apple, science does good by moving away from them.
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoBasically we want a similar system but at rates where profit is c. 0 (zero) and wages are around the median? But doesn't that translate to other "industries"? Or, is it recognition that science has a fundamentally greater importance to humanity ... it's that true though, arts are pretty fundamental too, medicine certainly is, housing, food, water supply, sewerage, ... Why do we accept rent-seeking and profiteering and excessive wages and whatever in these other things? Aside: Seems to me "science must seize [some of] the 'means of production'" is pretty communist.
- collyw 8y ago> Aside: Seems to me "science must seize [some of] the 'means of production'" is pretty communist. When the research is funded by the state it seems reasonable.
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoSo only industries that get government support - like rail, electricity supply in UK? Food production in USA? Farming across the EU? Then there's the premise that "private property is theft", so perhaps all industries that use land ownership or natural resources owe their utility to the public too?
- PascLeRasc 8y agoWe should improve society somewhat.