Absolutely. I'll give you an example in the context of educational publishing and academic publishing.
Academic authors earn virtually nothing from the work they do in terms of publishing. Oftentimes, academic research is funded by taxpayers through granting councils. Academics then write articles or books or anything else based on that taxpayer funding. The publishing industry typically asks or requires authors to assign our rights to the publisher. Not only that, but the academics are asked to do all of the work in the publication process, the peer reviewing, the editing. Then the publishers sell the work back to us as academics, academic institutions and research funders.
I think that when we're talking about what is and isn't happening in the education sector, and publishing in the education sector, we have to reflect the reality of what's really going on. Much of what you've heard from academic publishers doesn't reflect the reality for vast numbers of authors.