Re:High Prices Make Textbook ‘Piracy’ Acceptable to Most Stu...
by zarzavat on Sunday June 04, 2023 @06:16PM
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Incredible that this kind of corruption is tolerated in the credentials industry, most other industries would not tolerate someone making money from customers that way.
Can you imagine going to McDonalds and the guy won’t serve you your drink unless you buy a cup from his side business?
Re:High Prices Make Textbook ‘Piracy’ Acceptable to Most Stu...
by ryandrake on Sunday June 04, 2023 @11:35PM
(#36191941)
It's awful, and it's shameful but nobody feels shame anymore. The moral bar is "what can I legally get away with taking from the world" now. Nobody is even capable of feeling shame for their actions. It's just "bank account goes up" = "i'm right".
Re:High Prices Make Textbook ‘Piracy’ Acceptable to Most Stu...
by labster on Sunday June 04, 2023 @07:55PM
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At my community college, the third semester of a three semester general physics course needed a new textbook, even though it covered substantially the same material. The prof explained why: his friends wrote this book. He was the only professor who taught the third course. That really prepared me for the experience once I transferred to a university.
Re:High Prices Make Textbook ‘Piracy’ Acceptable to Most Stu...
by dotancohen on Sunday June 04, 2023 @08:43PM
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> failed to pay for the correct book.
The failure here was not the student's. Not the cutie professor, really. It was the dean who allows this who failed.
I forgot the professor's name, but if you're reading this, fuck you, Dr. Shithead (and all the other Shithead professors who do this).