Many people are proposing "fixes" for this kind of behavior in the comments. Fundamentally, there is no way to fix it, because the system is self-disregulating

Many people are proposing "fixes" for this kind of behavior in the comments. Fundamentally, there is no way to fix it, because the system is self-disregulating. In other words, there is no mechanism to bring the academic system back to honesty over time; there is a mechanism to make it more dishonest over time. This is inherent to government solutions. In modern times, democracy was supposed to be the regulating mechanism of the bureaucracy, but obviously isn't working. The bureaucracy itself certainly is disregulatory. Modern academia is simply an organ of the larger government bureaucracy.