Welcome @coinbitgold! I love how you bring up some of the problems with academia and the possibility of decentralizing knowledge.
In 2015, the academic publisher Elsevier earned about $1.58 billion in profit or about $9.36 billion in revenue.
Seriously? All the "brilliant" people who do original research haven't figured out how to get a lot of the profits themselves?
Thanks. I guess 'brilliant' people are busy with "publish or perish". I can understand that. Either that or awareness of this may be low.