Elsevier - Mander

Yea, academics need to just shut the publication system down. The more they keep pandering to it the more they look like fools.
Imagine there must be a payoff for them ? Wider distribution ?
Nope, you just can’t get a job unless you suck it up and publish in these journals, because they’re already famous. And established profs use their cosy relationships with editors to gatekeep and stifle competition for their funding :(