link to original reddit post by /u/MosaicIncaSleds
The public pays the wages, the buildings, the bill of the students processed there to keep the business going (student loans). The public pays the grants. And the research projects.
Yet, when the time comes, academic staff pockets the results. The research papers are behind paywalls. The Nobels, and Légion d'honneur, and the rights to making a script off their lives.
That is precisely what Marx was advocating. James Watt has a plan. And some investor builds the factory. Yet, somehow, the Engine should be owned and sold by the inbreeds who hammered the iron on top of their agreed wages.