those books don’t get sold dude. they get thrown out. i worked at a bookstore for awhile.

again, you can go rescue these books. go right ahead. nobody is stopping you. i’m going to throw trash in the trash.

you are conflating potential use with actual use.

and telling me you know nothing about books. second hand book stores want books they can sell. not worthless crap that nobody wants. libraries also, wnat books people will use.

nobody wants these books. just like when my company tosses 200 20" monitors for 2005, nobody wants them. We can’t give them or donate them or anything, because they are ancient pieces of shit. so into the trash they go.

You guys seriously seem to live in some world in your head where every book is precious, and every 20 year old monitor is wonderful. I mean, sure you can do that, but 99.9% of people don’t. it’s trash to them.

what job offers promotion for reading physics textbooks, praytell?

most employers offer you credit for advanced degrees or professional certifications, bother of which you aren’t getting from a book you found in a dumpster. you get those buy paying money and passing tests.

Are you seriously trying to argue that an employer is going to like promote you because you’re reading a physics textbook in your spare time?

I’d like to be on whatever drug you’re taking that you think this that’s how the world works. This is what is called ‘delusional optimism’.

I studied advanced mathematics for fun, it in no way improve my job prospects, performance, or make me ‘more intelligent’. It was just a personal fulfillment thing.

It’s fine if you want to learn advanced topics in your spare time, I love that myself. But I’m no under no delusion it improves anything about my life. It’s just a preference of how you like to spend your time.

anyway, by all means, please go buy 100 old text books and go to a homeless camp and try to educate folks about physics. see how that goes.

nobody is learning physics for fun dude.

anyway, you’re more than welcome to go rent a truck and take these books home with you if that’s your jive.

but being angry about someone throwing out books they don’t need/want is a weird-ass flex.

plenty of teachers teach without textbooks.

poor people don’t read books, let alone textbooks

that’s not how any of that works. it’s cute you think so though.

anyone can read a bunch of books. you can go buy these books on amazon.

getting a degree is a totally different thing. to grant legit degrees you must be an accredited educational institution.

libraries and people throw away books all the time. anytime i move away i typically toss about 100 books.

it’s normal. it’s just paper that no longer has a use.

so weird that people think like there is some obscure sacred knowledge here and this is sacrilegious.

why, they are worthless crap.

I’m not criticizing anything. The fact you feel criticized by my comment… maybe you are doing it performatively… if only for yourself?

I mean, most vinyl snobs I know… that’s the point. It’s a way to signify how ‘hardcore’ they are about music because they spend the money/time/space on it. That their listening inexpressive is ‘more authentic and real’ than me listening to spotify in my car. It’s a form of conspicuous consumption.

it makes nostalgia for something that never existed.

there is plenty of it for say medieval history. our fantasy conception of medieval times… is mostly completely false/fake.

or take the concept of the ‘noble savage’ as if cavemen are morally pure being or something. complete nonsense.

And yet people believe these things are legit and real.

she make her money from concerts and licensing fees. not music sales

most artists income these days comes from concerts. music sales aren’t money makers anymore the way they used to be.

the point is feeling like it’s superior when it objective isn’t as some sort of form of teenage rebellion or something.

not any different in the 90s when everything was CDs and that the few ‘cool’ kids were still using records as a FU to ‘the man’. and wearing 70s clothing styles.

It’s all about making yourself feel special.

They are just like every other generation before them. They think anything that’s 20-30 years old is ancient history and they want to ‘connect’ to a past they didn’t live through and it also makes them feel different than their parents who are all into streaming services and gave up physical media who lived through the progression of formats from analog, to digital, to non-physical.

There is a large subset of hipster types who are notalgic for VHS, cassette, film and early digital cameras.

It’s because of ‘vibes’. It makes them feel different, special, more important than the ‘normies’ listening to stuff on Spotify, watching stuff on Netflix, or using iphones for photography. They think it’s more ‘authentic’, ‘analog’, etc.

Yes, they are insufferable people to be around. I grew up with Cassettes and VHS. It sucked balls. I vastly prefer my 4K streaming and high bit rate audio. But I understand that for younger people or hipster types, the ‘retro’ aspect is super appealing and it makes them feel special. I have several friends like this over the years and they love to go on long rants about how superior they are for this stuff and how ignorant the Spotified masses are.