> $160 is what the market will bear.

You previously acknowledged it's a "very captive market" that you "would've expected Texas Instruments to try gouging" :) "$160 is what the very captive market will bear until the state-sanctioned gouging backfires" is a less compelling argument.

"Shrug" is kind of gross. Seems like you're being reflexively cynical.

Edit: to be clear the problem here is really local school boards being antidemocratic and unaccountable, not TI being greedy.