I think we agree that the current system isn't good. In posting, I was working out my thoughts on the P&L for those intermediaries, and the value they provide v

I think we agree that the current system isn't good. In posting, I was working out my thoughts on the P&L for those intermediaries, and the value they provide versus the value they extract. I'm not sure what things should look like, but my conclusion is that selling publicly funded science to publicly funded scientists at a premium seems like quite an inefficiency.