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Yaser Al-Najjar • Edited

I can't pay for that

The lamest excuse I've ever heard, most people pay for:

  • Expensive coffee
  • Expensive soccer ticket
  • Expensive mobile phones (yes, I'm talking about you, iPhone!)
  • Expensive universities' tuition fees
  • Expensive conference ticket
  • Expensive party ticket

But hey, if it's a book or a course, it will directly fall among the "I can't afford that" 🀨

What you said in your nicely written article works the same in regards of courses too...

Yes, I confess that I was stealing Pluralsight and Udemy courses, but not anymore.

I became a content author and I see how much work we pour into making just one video (planning, recording, editing, and publishing), around two hours to produce a 10 mins video 🀯

That fact totally changed my mind about how wrong it is to "download from torrent" a course rather than buying it.

I hope people who still "download" books or courses would consider buying them instead.

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πŸ¦„N BπŸ›‘

But hey, if it's a book or a course, it will directly fall among the "I can't afford that" 🀨

Yeah, this has always seemed strange to me. Training services (and occasionally my training services), to the rare few they're on offer to, are in demand. But some will balk when recommended to pay for an online course to prepare for the in-person stuff.

It's the same with software.

Real head scratcher there.

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Yaser Al-Najjar

Real head scratcher there.

Exactly man!

BTW Nathan, I enjoy reading your comments here and there πŸ‘Œ

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