Its all who you know.
Imagine starting your math PhD at 21, you're just set up for success by getting selected. Then get picked up for a tenure track position teaching three classes a semester if that, while pumping out nonsense about cardinal jew numbers for decades.
If you are not employed in the private sector as a mathematician, you are a fraud. No mathematician in academia is worthy of any inherent respect. Just assume they're fraudulent heebs or chinese spies until proven otherwise.
