At 150 eurobucks apiece, printed freshman coursebooks were prohibitively expensive in uni. We just pirated everything as a consequence.

Symbiote 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

At my university in actual Europe, many copies of the required textbooks were available in the library. Printing was free.

Flavius 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That's the whole point. They don't care about students or education, they care about wasting resources and making a lot of money in the process.

	▲	mistrial9 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		some do and some don't. the "outrage" button is appropriate for the first part (don't care about students; waste resources to increase profits), but destructive for the second (we do care about students; we use resources in the classroom). It is hard to discuss this important topic when things go to "yelling" immediately? > They don't care about students or education, they care about wasting resources and making a lot of money in the process.