On top of the golden visa there are also a lot of digital nomads, who earn a US salary, while living in Portugal. These types obviously don't mind paying a rent value that is unaffordable for 95% of the population.
There's no need for that, we're all on the same side, and the GNU tools may not be an os by themselves, but they are a crucial part of any Linux distribution.
I have a small gripe with this article: CTRL+K, CTRL+U and CTRL+W don't "delete", they "cut", and the clipboard can be accessed with CTRL+Y, which the article also fails to mention.
It's true, there are factors that will make things sort of work, or make them go downhill very fast. In Portugal, there was a lot of deregulation in the past few 20 years, which brought higher prices, monopolies and fixed prices. That's my main reason for not believing in deregulation, but I understand that there may be exceptions to this. I just think that they're precisely that: exceptions to the rule.
Also, I love that I'm having a deep conversation in the memes community!
I didn't have to search much to find an article talking about the corruption in the Brazilian telecommunications free market: https://teletime.com.br/10/12/2019/o-passado-mal-explicado-das-telecomunicacoes-no-brasil/
Sure, you can argue that many of these companies simply went bankrupt, but the weight of those bankruptcies falls on the same shoulders every time: private profit, public loss.
Sure, there were a lot of telecoms opening at that time due to the government opening up the market, but at what cost?
That's not accurate, the image is missing sleeps between each print.