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What's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by mastermind@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] dogebread@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

And the versioning of those textbooks to make sure it can sell for exactly nothing.