MrBlund

Nothing personal but the anger I feel towards higher education publishers is very real. Textbook pricing is outrageous and "new" editions come out every other year with only very minor changes. Now almost every textbook comes with an online access code for labs/assignmenst that only makes reselling even more difficult. If someone completing a four year degree were to purchase every required textbook at retail prices they could easily break $10k.

How do you justify the price of these textbooks that are usually only used for 3 months?

It looks to me like these publishers are taking advantage of the fact that many of these textbooks are required readings and are charging the maximum amount the market can bear and not what they are actually worth. From a business perspective that's fine but at the end of they day these companies see students as cash cows and I find it insulting that it's done under the pretense that you're doing us a favour.

You've stated in previous answers that it would take a movement of the people but that isn't very clear. What would you like to see the people do? What are some specific steps we can make today toward implementing UBI (write to our government, etc)?

Second question.

Could a true UBI system be implemented at a municipal or provincial/state level or does the entire country have to buy in? I believe UBI would be more successful and garner more attention if people could see it in action and it would be a lot easier to convince a municipality than it would an entire nation.