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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
It really chaps my ass when you look something up and they’ll only give you the abstract.
I’m like really. I’m pretty sure that I’m the only one on earth who just wants to read this. Not for a grade. Not because I’m on the dissertation team. I’m just ****ing interested but you’re going to keep it hidden up your ass instead. **** them.
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I don't think it was a Ted Talk but it was a video of some guy talking about Libgen and about how the entire point was that information and education should be free and easily accessible to everyone and how Libgen was an attempt to give that to the world. Wish I could find it.
But **** yes. I understand the idea of academics being compensated for their time and effort, but Jesus ****ing Christ if it reduces knowledge to a commodity that is only accessible to those who can pay for it then **** everything that you're about. Enlightenment shouldn't be for the rich. It should be for the benefit of all society because otherwise what on earth is the point? It just becomes a way for the upper class to further the divide between the rich and the poor.