"People inside a moat, want to keep the moat from being breached because it fucks with their status quo."

EVERY.SINGLE.TIME. No shit, why would they want something disruptive to fuck with the way elite academia operates? And obviously I am talking about the "Master of the Universe" types atop the Ivory Tower. They have been A-OK, with privately-funded professorships, partnering with book publishers to milk students with single-access codes and never-ending "new" editions to their books, summer salary grants, partnering with all sorts of private companies as contractors, and/or milking on the tenure tit while the average adjunct lecturer at a local college/university struggles to make ends-meet and has 150 students in a lecture.

The author talks about his UC Berkeley years. That UC Berkeley that opened and operated for nearly a century as a public institution educating California's true middle class up until the 1960 Donahoe Master Plan, but slowly progressed to gate-keep "normies" out and pivoted to a model of elitism that is absolutely and catastrophically broken.

Fuck off.

Fat cat math professors have had it too good for too long. It’s time they leave a few crumbs for AI company CEOs!

> book publishers to milk students with single-access codes and never-ending "new" editions to their books,

The best example of this is James Stewart's Calculus textbooks. It is priced so high and made him so much money that he built a $24 million "Integral House"!

Where the money from your Stewart calculus book goes - https://www.mprnews.org/story/2011/04/18/where-the-money-fro...

The House That Calculus Built - https://www.fastcompany.com/3052267/the-house-that-calculus-...

PS: Just to be clear, the above has got nothing to do with mathematicians and their work. It just goes to show how bad the textbook publishing industry is in shafting students that you can make money off of them by selling centuries old well-known mathematics.