this post was submitted on 26 Dec 2023
651 points (95.8% liked)

Memes

45660 readers
1167 users here now

Rules:

  1. Be civil and nice.
  2. Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] JPAKx4@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Around 3-5% is spent on textbooks alone

[–] Funkytom467@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Your textbook is enough to pay for all of our education.

Did no one thought about having a library for that lmao.

P.S. Or more seriously on putting the material online.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 13 points 10 months ago

I’m sure some people thought of it. But then everybody else thought “wait, but money!”

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Room and board can be as much as another 20% depending on where you go.