If the population has 100K people who think being a prof would be a cool job, graduate 1000 PHDs per year qualified to be a prof, and have 100 job openings per

If the population has 100K people who think being a prof would be a cool job, graduate 1000 PHDs per year qualified to be a prof, and have 100 job openings per year across the world to actually be a prof, you can expect that the selection process will winnow down based on very easy to measure and "justify" metrics like demographic membership and hours of butts in seats, not to mention publish or perish. No matter how small of a group you're in, there's always someone who loves their family, themselves, friends, hobbies, or life, less than you do, and in the modern hyperconnected world your boss wants to replace you with that person, because we're all interchangeable fungible cogs that turn salary into production metrics.