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Turns out that Ghislaine Maxwell's father who invented the paywall model for research papers.
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They’re dabbing on us. They’re always dabbing on us.
(Not) jokes aside, this is how these bloodsuckers make money. They hijack a system, make themselves ‘integral’ to the process, and then get paid out in perpetuity.
The history of capitalism is the history of enclosure, and of the never ending quest for frontiers to enclose.