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Re:Nearly 5M Americans in Default on Student Loans by paulddraper on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @11:03PM (#15919860)
Exactly. If you wonder why education and health care costs explode: when the party deciding is not the party paying, that's what happens.

I hadn't heard of pay-to-read journals being an attempt to create a "market-free zone".

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Re:Nearly 5M Americans in Default on Student Loans by whatshisface on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @11:09PM (#15919884)
The journals occupy a position where the quality of the service they provide has nothing to do with why a person chooses to do business with them. It's a market in that you can choose who to submit papers to, but the incentives are so misaligned that it doesn't work like a market.
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