Beyond not seeing it as a problem, it is a genuine cost. A publication in PLOS Medicine costs ~ $3000. That's a postdoc's laptop. That's several conferences. A

Beyond not seeing it as a problem, it is a genuine cost. A publication in PLOS Medicine costs ~ $3000. That's a postdoc's laptop. That's several conferences. And it's a single-digit percentage of my startup funding. It's not insane to not pay that if you don't have to.