Coursera is willing to have the same amount of money you're willing to keep.
How are they greedier than you?
Expecting a service without giving anything in return is the definition of "greedy".
Expecting a service without giving anything in return is the definition of "greedy".
Coursera's about page used to say this: "committed to making the best education in the world freely available to any person who seeks it".
Now they have removed every instance of the word "free" https://www.coursera.org/about/
Nothing wrong with being a for-profit company, but they went from optional paid certificates to deleting old MOOCs and making new ones exclusive for those willing to pay, every day their monetization tactics get more aggressive.
Also check this video from 3 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUO3Pk0nOCM
If you care so much about the poor, you might as well subsidize a MOOC for them, instead of demanding Coursera to do so.
Sheesh, people really over-dramatize Hacker News threads. We aren't a legislative chamber debating a bill. We're an assortment of techno-hipster liberals and wannabe-entrepreneur libertarians, commenting on (often trivial) current events over coffee on a Saturday morning. The moral outrage-over-the-outrage-over-the-outrage-over-the-outrage gets comical after the first couple recursions.
How is that for an outrage over an outrage? :)