the thread is below… jon sent me another, perhaps the same article, which he sent to the new york times… would dig up from my whatsapp later… 
The second is about the exploitation of free academic labour during peer review, and was inspired by @surya. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/6quxg
Abstract: Commercial publishing houses continue to make unbounded profits while exploiting the free labour of researchers through peer review. If publishers are to be compensated financially for the value that they add within a capitalist system, then all others who add value should be similarly, including reviewers. I propose that peer review should be included as a professional service by research institutes in their contracts with commercial publishers. This would help to recognise the value of peer review, and begin to shape it into a functional form of quality control.