I don't know if the culture which punishes those caught plagiarism more harshly than the others tends to have any long term advantages, but I can only hope so s

I don't know if the culture which punishes those caught plagiarism more harshly than the others tends to have any long term advantages, but I can only hope so since I live in the US. This really needs a double blind test given the overwhelming potential for bias. Maybe, this will one day be a new field of study in academia: Economics of Plagiarism 101.