mastermind@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoWhat's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore?message-squaremessage-square148fedilinkarrow-up117arrow-down10
arrow-up117arrow-down1message-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.mlEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square148fedilink
minus-squareddh@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year agoProfessors requiring their own, expensive textbook for their course.
minus-squarethedirtyknapkin@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 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.
minus-squaredogebread@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoAnd the versioning of those textbooks to make sure it can sell for exactly nothing.
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.