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Wait until you discover that researchers aren't compensated by publishing corporations for their papers. Or that most book authors get ridiculous royalties in their publishing contract (a few percent of the price, including for ebooks that are being sold at the price of paper copies) unless they are already famous.

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ACM charged me to publish. After I'd written the paper and after their peer review process which was not convincingly value adding, but it was something like $100 so I paid it. Overall experience makes it likely I'll just post to arxiv instead next time.

(In fairness that fee did nominally grant access to read other papers by them as well, but the credentials they sent out didn't let me log in and I didn't bother contacting them to resolve it)

> Wait until you discover that researchers aren't compensated by publishing corporations for their papers.

Yes, but most researchers are compensated by either the state, universities or companies hoping to profit of their research. Little high-level research is done for the fun of it.

Given how low the pay can be when not working on hot topics, one could argue that most research is in fact done for the fun of it.

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