I mean he’s right, but to hear it put so frankly is still a slap in the face.
Content creators on places like youtube earn between 55%-75% of the revenue. Academics get nothing from elsevier.
Permanently unpaid intern for Elsevier
You don’t have to pay to your employer as an unpaid intern.
I’m usually against large institutions colluding together to kill off other institutions…
…but if the major research universities and labs all agreed to stop publishing in backwards for-profit journals, well I wouldn’t exactly cry about it.
Cory Doctorow wrote a great article about academic publishing a few days ago: https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/16/the-public-sphere/#not-the-elsevier
Things are looking up!
Why be a Youtuber or a Tiktoker when you can be an Elsevierer