mastermind@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 1 year agoWhat's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore?message-squaremessage-square353 fedilinkarrow-up1365
arrow-up1365message-squareWhat's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore?mastermind@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 1 year agomessage-square353 Commentsfedilink
minus-squareddh@lemmy.sdf.orghexbear53·1 year agoProfessors requiring their own, expensive textbook for their course. linkfedilink
minus-squarethedirtyknapkin@lemmy.mlhexbear23·1 year agoworse than that is professors being required by the school's contract with the textbook company to tell you to buy a book that they have no intent on using because it's awful. that was way way more common for me. linkfedilink
minus-squaredogebread@lemm.eehexbear9·1 year agoAnd the versioning of those textbooks to make sure it can sell for exactly nothing. linkfedilink
minus-squareChapo0114 [comrade/them, he/him]hexbear5·1 year agoAt least my profs who had their own textbook sold them cheap. link
Professors requiring their own, expensive textbook for their course.
worse than that is professors being required by the school's contract with the textbook company to tell you to buy a book that they have no intent on using because it's awful. that was way way more common for me.
And the versioning of those textbooks to make sure it can sell for exactly nothing.
At least my profs who had their own textbook sold them cheap.