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I want to add one more thing here. @BrunaLab is right in the narrow sense that APCs are problematic, but they are not the problem. The problem is publisher greed, and fecklessness from scientific leaders and senior scientists who are complicit in a deeply broken system.
It is important to remember that APCs arose in response to one of the most fundamental inequalities in science - the erection by greedy journal publishers of paywalls that limit access to the scientific literature to people at wealthy academic institutions in wealthy countries.
In the early days of the #openaccess movement, we tried to convince @NIH and other funders to directly subsidize publishing, pointing out that they were already funding publishing, they were just doing it in an inefficient way that wasn't good for science.
