It's not actually the academics being opposed or attempted to be undermined here... academics don't actually get paid (in general) for writing, publishing, or peer-reviewing articles. Rather, it's the parasitical business of commercial corporate academic publishers, who charge extortionate prices for commoners to see the papers the academic authors submitted for free, that is being opposed. This business model was arguably useful in the days when publication required shifting huge mounds of paper, but is rather useless in the Internet age.
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