> Academics want to publish where there is prestige Important to note that this is not some innate "want"; their careers depend on it. It's a means to an ends,

> Academics want to publish where there is prestige Important to note that this is not some innate "want"; their careers depend on it. It's a means to an ends, the ends being being able to keep practicing science. (Of course prestige-by-proxy will play a role as well, but it's not what's keeping the system in place.)