Well surprise, people cheat because an academic degree is yet another checkbox to be ticked in the ever more grueling list of tasks needed to be done to acquire

Well surprise, people cheat because an academic degree is yet another checkbox to be ticked in the ever more grueling list of tasks needed to be done to acquire a job that has even a remote chance of paying a living wage. Fix that, so that only those actually interested in academia per se and not just because they need a checkbox to tick remain, and the problem with cheating in academia will collapse.