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Scarcity damages dissemination of knowledge
Here are two graphical illustrations of the process of dissemination of knowledge.
From the point of view of the author/researcher it looks like this:
From the point of view of those seeking knowledge it looks like this:
Then, obviously, from the point of view of the researcher SCARCITY is a very bad idea.
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Many mapping to one, one mapping to many. It just depends what end one is looking through.
Yes, nowadays brains are scarce and ideas (copies of publications) aplenty. Inadvertently I found a justification for gold open access: it sells reader brains to authors.
LOL! Cheaply?
Not cheap at all! After more thinking, it looks that they are charging the authors for a kind of ellaborate courtship (that’s the peer-review process), instead of letting them to beat one another to death for getting the scarce brain-time prize.