$0. I would not have any it if I didn’t pirate it. I was never going to spend any money.

Yes, but you assume they know literally anything about the academic system at all. They think anybody who works at a university is an “elite”, and is therefore somehow being treated better than them.

If you enter at 6 o’clock and exit again at 6 o’clock, you have travelled 360° which is a full loop.

Making a full loop is called a U-Turn and they are absolutely permitted.