Now that is some bold take.
PS. Journals are ridiculously expensive. I wonder what part of it goes to the authors.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0321-8
which they are then due to political moronics are expected to sell their science to the journal who stamps a price tag on it and sells it back to academia at a markup.it's literally a scam.
@icedquinn @GNUxeava
Sounds like a private-funded university... I never went to one and don't plan to. It's main gain is status rather than intellectual.
Yeah i went to a private university for staus not to learn
Still paying for it. Didnt learn much while i was there too.
@icedquinn @GNUxeava
@dielan @icedquinn @GNUxeava
With the advent of things like #hackerspaces and companies slowly introducing employing people based on skill instead of merit, I hope the future will be more pleasant in such regards. I could be mistaken given my preferences, but I hope my judgement is adequately aligned.
@icedquinn @GNUxeava @dielan
Merit can be earned through efforts towards goal that is not applicable to skill.
An example is someone who is *supposedly* active in a community but doesn't actually put associated development skill into it. (eg. Posting, reposting, shitposting{arguably}, brief non-detailed replies, etc).
In terms of projects like the linux kernel, merit is actually in often seen as code-related contribution.
To me, you earn my respect- I don't know who are and don't care otherwise. Neither of of us should be anything to either unless some figment-like fragment of dust-like spec of a reason occurs.
Tldr; merit vs effort is context-sensitive in this case, but overall I believe efforts/labor should be scaled accordingly.
