@ideasmithy I note that OVERTHROWING CAPITALISM IN FAVOUR OF COMMUNISM isn't among the proposed solutions, sadly.
@pettter I think this is because it wouldn't actually solve most of the problems around this. The broken incentives for most parties in this situation are not inherently capitalistic – wanting to advance your career, wanting more resources assigned from the state – and it's hard to tell what the changes of incentives of publishers would be.
Although this would at least get rid of Elsevier, so not an insignificant win.
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@timorl True, but at least you wouldn't be incentivised towards bad science just to stay in the field at all..
But yeah, you're right that it'd be a partial fix at best - see e.g. The Dispossessed for a realistic imagining of a failure mode (and recovery).
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