Graphing calculators are a good example of governmental intervention leading to a monopoly. They hold technology readily available for free on the internet or through apps, yet they sell the clunky machines (which are nearly 10 years old) for the consumer price of nearly 100 euro. Here in NL at least, the government regulates which ones are allowed to be used on tests. This to ensure that teachers can help students at any given moment and to battle cheating during exams. But because of that, there are only three types allowed to be had: Casio, Texas Instruments, and HP graphing calculators. Casio and TI haven't updated jack shit in the last few years, while HP only tailors a niche market with very expensive calculators.

Because of governmental intervention, clunky pieces of technology that are worth at most 5 euro are being sold for nearly 100 euro. The hardware of the calculators is archaic at best, while free and better software can be downloaded through the app store. They don't have to lower their prices because people (students) are forced to buy the calculators anyway.

I'm a liberal, and if you are as well you'd be against any form of beginning communism in a heart beat. Melenchon is nothing short of classic left-wing populism as well. This man is talking about ''pre-revolution'' shit and how France is on the verge of ''splitting like an atom''. ''The atom is very small, but split it and it shatters far and wide.''

Money – whether a lack or surfeit of it – is the root of most evil. He proposes a monthly minimum wage of €1,300 (£1,125), 100% taxation for those earning more than €33,000 a month, and the renegotiation of EU treaties to escape the yoke of “economic liberalism”.

He wants to lower the work days to four. (Unaffordable. This means you have to hire more people to fill in the gap which means you have to lower wages.) He wants workers to have more vacation days. (Same as before.) He wants to raise the minimum wage by 16%. (This means you'd have to fire a lot of low-skilled labor. But you can't because you already need more people to work. Well shit.) Increase tax on inherited wealth. (If dad dies, you don't deserve any of the money he saved up to ensure you can go to university.) He wants to stop free trade deals, leave the NATO (the fucking bulwark ensuring world peace) and he wants to abandon nuclear energy while simultaneously stepping over to 100% renewable energy. (With today's knowledge, impossible. We need to innovate on nuclear energy to ensure we have a greener tomorrow.)

Apparently, economics are optional in a socialist world. Being against the free market is being against freedom itself. And let freedom just now be the most important principle for any liberal. He doesn't want the poor to be richer, he wants the rich to be less rich. That's not how you solve any form inequality. That's how you destroy economies and how, ultimately, the poor will be fucked over. And that is why I'd vote, with a lot of contempt, for Le Pen if it were to come down to a melenchon vs. le pen show down.

https://youtu.be/pdR7WW3XR9c?t=58s

I am benevolent.

Aren't these types of tests always just for good fun?

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mfw trump backs away from labeling china a currency manipulator and wants to strengthen their economic relationship
mfw trump topples assad and reduces russian influence in syria
mfw trump calls out putin on his shit
mfw trump is attempting to solve the north korean crisis together with china
mfw trump says the nato is the bulwark of international peace and security

Will the alt-right hate him now? Do we have our boy Jared Kushner to thank for this? I, for one, welcome this new Trump.

I just got a very interesting message on twitch. Background story: somebody was streaming a football match on twitch and this guy kept rambling about complete nonsense in the chat. Hence my innocent comment. Came back today to this. This is both funny and sad.