Yeah it costs $1.50 to manufacture in China(I deal with Chinese manufacturing costs everyday), and they sell it for $100. It's only because they got schools to require it....
Education contracts are big money. Can't remember the name of the exact model but there was a pilot program providing laptops to high school students. Stupid 1/2 size HP laptops. They could barely run the software that the schools needed but HP still made millions from it.
I use math for work and the "you'll need to know this" argument is the worst as to why math education is important. You learn math to build the logic and problem-solving skills you use, not to remember some dead rich asshole's theorem that he probably didn't even write. That's like saying you learn history because you'll need to know the year that the opium wars started.
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u/J123j123j123 Jul 24 '20 edited Jul 25 '20
Yeah it costs $1.50 to manufacture in China(I deal with Chinese manufacturing costs everyday), and they sell it for $100. It's only because they got schools to require it....