status is more important
I think power is more important than commonly thought, but I accept that it's not easy to disentangle it from status.
I'm not sure you get a lot more money and power from advancement in other areas of academia.
You do in some, notably law and business. And yes, I'm not saying that's the main explanation why soft sciences do so much worse than hard ones.
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