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by dnautics 3182 days ago
Why the emphasis on money? The structural organization of science as a hierarchical enterpise with gatekeepers to advancement will result in these problems regardless of funding or commercialization.
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Tying funding to it makes them much more acute though. Essentially forcing you to play by these rules in order to live.

Without being forced like this, many deadbeat fake journals would die and places like arxiv would flourish.

That organization itself is a consequence of the funding policy. There's nothing else pushing scientists into a hierarchy, or at least nothing nearly as strong.