Stealing Your Money, School Textbook Theives Do

So the price of my books this semester will be 800 bucks. I hate school. 

People who support this system say 'it's part of being in college'. I say 'bullshit'

The whole 'that's just the way it is' argument is not a good one when it comes to things that are changeable. The sun is just the way it is. Mars is just the way it is. The scam that the book publishers, proffessors, and school book stores run is not 'just the way it is.' We can change that bullshit. 

'You sign up for it when you sign up for college'. No. That is what they stick me with when I sign up for an education. 

'It just affects students and their parents, though. I don't have to deal with it. I don't got to college'. Nope. You do feel the effects. How do you think we pay for all those kids to go to college? Loans. Where do they get those? Gov-ment. Where does the school (public ones) get its money for paying teachers etc? Gov-ment. Where does the gov-ment get money from? You. Ha. 

Shouldn't it be about the information, and not about the money? Shouldn't these schools be looking for ways to pass on the precious knowledge to the students in the most efficient, cost-effective way possible? Instead, they tack on fees for required PIN access codes for online-quizzes that really are useless and inefficient uses of time. 

My DSCI 2710 teacher wrote the textbook. I bought it online, through Facebook Marketplace, from some other guy who had taken the class the semester previous. Turns out that that was a waste of time and money because the prof added an online PIN code to his new edition that was required. Okay, I think, I'll just see if I can buy this code. Surely it will be cheaper than buying book plus code. Nope. Wasn't possible. His response? "That is just the way it is". Fuck you too. When I bought the book, it was the same book as the old one, just with less glossy paper and black and white pictures. Since it was a new edition, I bought it brand new. 

Seriously, you can get through half these classes without looking at any book. That is why they require you to buy a pin that only comes with a book. That coupled with the fact that people are selling books to each other rather than selling it back to the book store for peanuts. BCIS 2610 started requiring a new bundled pack with an online access PIN code. The website for the class stated: THE OLD BOOKS WILL NOT WORK. YOU MUST BUY FROM THE BOOKSTORE OR THE PUBLISHER! Lame-o. 

Is it really necessary for my acquiring  of the knowledge? No. It is necessary for the acquirement of money from the students, and the satisfaction of the partner publisher. 

For the record, I am not against making money. No. I am against unfair market practices. There is something wrong about a couple of people controlling the entire market for books. Open it up a little. Let other people get a piece of the pie. Have some competition. You know, the American Way.