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It's not actually hard, but I agree with the point. BTW, they also charge authors ridiculous amount of money for additional services, e.g. printing colored imag
by dandanua 2y ago
It's not actually hard, but I agree with the point. BTW, they also charge authors ridiculous amount of money for additional services, e.g. printing colored images.
In a far (and optimistic) future such companies will be studied as examples of social parasites in schools and universities.
- giancarlostoro 2y agoStarting with Oracle I am sure.
- geysersam 2y agoPrinting colored images! What does a single issue of their printed editions cost? Hundreds of dollars? The color printing cost is a rounding error.
- qup 2y agoI think the universities themselves will be studied as social parasites, too.
- vsuperpower2020 2y agoI think they'll be studied as universal basic income. There's so many college graduates with no skills who basically unemployable, but are still collecting a decent salary to teach things that no one wants to pay for in the first place. Our economy can evidently support a lot of people who aren't working.
- LastTrain 2y agoIt already is studied and there is even a term for it: rent seeking. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking