Content creators on places like youtube earn between 55%-75% of the revenue. Academics get nothing from elsevier.

I mean he’s right, but to hear it put so frankly is still a slap in the face.

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.

Elsevier is a company that unashamedly turns grants straight into profits.