> The big difference here is that prestige has nothing to do with cost, unlike your Louis Voutton comparison. Yep, usually it's the opposite. You pay more mone

> The big difference here is that prestige has nothing to do with cost, unlike your Louis Voutton comparison. Yep, usually it's the opposite. You pay more money to get published through easy to get into conferences. If you're not in academia or don't have some membership, you pay way more to get into conferences. You pay thousands more to get published in low quality open access journals because your paper is not good enough. Etc. (Also no one pays $50 to read a single article, you get it for free through the university library.)