> Why do so many commenters on HN always sound so confident, yet none of them work in publishing? To rephrase the question and make it less interesting: Why is

> Why do so many commenters on HN always sound so confident, yet none of them work in publishing? To rephrase the question and make it less interesting: Why is it that none of the people who think that academic publishing is a scam are academic publishers? It's like asking why abolitionists never seem to own slaves, or to show any understanding of a slaveholder's overhead.