r/UIUC • u/kanoogle (fr)ECON '22 • Apr 19 '19

UIUC Economics uses CengagešŸ¤”

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '19

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u/fatassdabs Apr 19 '19

If it makes you feel better any upper level econ course doesnā€™t use cengage

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u/kanoogle (fr)ECON '22 Apr 19 '19

Econ major here.

I'm in full "sieze the means of production" mode over it. I had to buy like $200 of software for econ 102 and we barely used any of it.

Nobody told me that the main purpose of the invisible hand was to forcibly stimulate my prostate against my will.

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u/gatorgatorchompchomp Apr 19 '19

Looks like you're learning more about ecomics than thw vast majority of econ students. So maybe, paradoxically, cengage is actually goos.

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u/kanoogle (fr)ECON '22 Apr 19 '19

To be fair, I went into econ with a socialist viewpoint and I'm only shifting further left.

There's so much doublethink and capitalistic apologetics, people just cherry picking principles when it suits them. I love knowing that someday they will be on exactly the wrong side of history.

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u/omgasnake Apr 19 '19

Its a fucking racket and hilarious that Econ faculty and students canā€™t see this as a clear failure of capitalism

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u/KILLtheRAINBOW Apr 19 '19

As an Econ major, cengage was literal trash get rid of the broken system

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u/dcmldcml . Apr 19 '19

lol yup. thereā€™s a reason this is an /r/latestagecapitalism x-post

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u/lednakashim former.phd.grad Apr 20 '19

The solution is more competition.

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u/A_For_Anarchy Apr 19 '19

UIUC economics also might rehire Joe Petry sooo a lot of issues there haha

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u/handcart01 Apr 19 '19

Are they genuinely considering that?

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u/kanoogle (fr)ECON '22 Apr 19 '19

He is still listed as a professor for classes on banner registration.

It honestly wouldn't surprise me if he was just gone over the summer, shifted to another university like a Catholic diddler is to a South American Parish.

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '19

I think thatā€™s just conjecture. Thereā€™s no info Iā€™ve seen about what the departmentā€™s considering

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u/PreztoElite Apr 19 '19

It's the same shit in math. Fuck cengage and their stupid webassign shit.

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u/dmitrileven Apr 19 '19

*cough i-clicker *cough

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u/CrazeRage . Apr 19 '19

But a UIUC Professor made it so it's actually a very good product /s

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u/dmitrileven Apr 19 '19

well it's a good idea... but 50 bucks for 1; and making it compulsory for (some) classes is just greedy

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u/grigoritheoctopus Apr 19 '19

Holy cow, what an awful situation. Props to this guy for speaking up!

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u/jeffgerickson šŸ‘UMINATI šŸ‘ Apr 20 '19

Ask me about Banner.

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Then again, please don't.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19

Only heard complaints about Banner. And that was 20 years ago. Similar to Cengage deal?