Yes scientific publishing is a total ripoff. University people don’t pay for reading articles, so they don’t do anything about the insane prices, and they care

Yes scientific publishing is a total ripoff. University people don’t pay for reading articles, so they don’t do anything about the insane prices, and they care much more about publishing in some notorious journal than being paid for it. They hope to get career advancement from papers. The problem is that it’s easy to setup a journal, but how to become a respected journal in the field is the hard part…