>>11150086All my work is on the arxiv. Who the fuck cares.
There's only one reason people still submit to journals: their work isn't significant enough. Why do you think so many groundbreaking papers exist solely as arxiv preprints? Everyone knows how important those papers are. It's only the brainlets like me who rely on "peer review" to trick others into think I do anything meaningful. It's all cope.
And no, it's not piracy, stealing work. First of, almost certainly that work was funded by the NSF or NIH or DoE or etc. So the results are public unless there's a legitimate security concern, as far as I'm concerned. Secondly, the authors aren't MAKING any money off of having a paywall. It benefits them absolutely nothing. If anything it makes it harder for them to disseminate their work (if they don't have a preprint server in their field). Why do you think we WILLINGLY pay for our papers to be open access? If sci-hub became more mainstream, maybe open access wouldn't be necessary and researchers would SAVE money.
Just some food for thought. Also, you seem to have this horrible misconception that "science and progress" is possible due to "access to scientific journals". I don't know who gave you this impression, but stop it, now. If I didn't know better I'd think that Elsevier wrote that line. Disgusting.
