$250 from 5 donations? Textbooks must’ve gotten a lot cheaper since I went to college if you can get them with that kind of money.
That’s why back home we can not legally be compensated for donating blood or plasma. But you usually get some Sandwich and Coffee or something else to drink afterwards, which is nice.
It would feel super dystopian to be paid for essentially selling a part of myself.
Is this a US thing where curriculums are based on basically one book? Here in germany, often professors just put together their own presentation slides and make them available for the students. The material in the slides of course is based losely on one or more books, but u don’t really need to read or let alone purchase those books. Also, aren’t university libraries a thing in the US? We can get a lot of digital copies of books legitimately for free.
And what majors require u to even read specific books? I did my major in electrical engineering, and there are so many books and even YouTube videos explaining a lot of stuff for free. I mean the mathematics and the physical laws are always the same, so it’s not like they change from book to book.
I’m a lecturer for a University where all courses are required to have a mandatory textbook that is sold at the University book store.
The thing is, most of the time the book isn’t actually necessary - we just have to tell the students in code. When I tell students that a textbook is mandatory as a required supplement to the materials that will be provided in lecture and online, it’s code for “Don’t buy that shit - they’re making me say it’s mandatory.”
When I was in school, I also had a professor who had written a mandatory textbook, but it was printed on the cheap, spiral-bound, and he didn’t take a commission on its sale, so it was like $12.
But there are also evil professors. I had a professor of American History in college who had a “mandatory” textbook he had written and said would be included in all the exams and that he would not cover it in lectures. The book turned out to be about an art movement in 1920s Mexico (his doctorate was in Mexican history), and not a page of it was actually relevant to the course or included in the exams. He just wanted to make extra money off the students.
I had one prof here in Germany that did this as well. It was his own book. He was adamant that everyone taking his class had to get the latest version, upgrading it every semester.
Grifters gonna grift.
Probably makes MUCH more money forcing his book on students than he does teaching.
Unless you mean that he provided it to his students for free. In which case, good on him! 😁
Doubt that he earns more through selling books. Professors are paid really well in germany.
Ah ok, that’s good 🙂
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That’s not what donating means…
Possibly “donation” because the payment isn’t guaranteed? I mean this in a way that the company is using to protect itself.
Company?? This is getting too much. I thought it was a public service.
Regular blood donation goes through the Red Cross, which is a nonprofit. This plasma donation happens through private companies though.
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Given what hospitals charge for the same, you literally were a cash cow for american healthcare…
Some of the Plasma donated gets turned into high-end cosmetics.
Isn’t that just uniquely American?
Yeah. Here in Australia they don’t pay us
The reagan logo is a nice touch
