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A few econ oddities

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There's a few questions that positively/negatively impact the economic/market axis that are a bit confusing, and, in my opinion, should be reworked.

To this end, there's a few that seem odd:
`"question": "I support regional unions, such as the European Union.",`

This one is odd because generally those of a market-oriented persuasion are going to be of no opinion on if the EU is good or bad, as this is more of a societal/progressive question than necessarily a governmental/economic one. Someone who is market oriented isn't going to care about a union or not; they're only going to care about *trade* policy of their country. For example; someone could support fierce EU independence, but still ultimately come out *very strongly* in favor of trade deals with other EU nations.

` "question": "Military spending is a waste of money.",`

This one should definitely have an economic component to it; those who are more market oriented are inherently going to be against governmental spending.

` "question": "All people - regardless of factors like culture or sexuality - should be treated equally."`

This one doesn't have much to do with market forces at all; "treated equally" is likewise, ambiguous; is it equal treatment before the law? Equal treatment in terms of lack of judgment? Equality of results?

`"question": "It is important that we further my group's goals above all others.",`

This isn't even remotely an economic question; this should purely be a societal/civil rights/diplomacy issue.

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The issue points to specific questions in the quiz's question set, likely in a JSON or JavaScript file. Find where these questions are defined (look for files like questions.js or a data.json). Understand how each question maps to the 'economic' axis in the scoring logic. The work involves rephrasing or re-categorizing the listed questions, then verifying the changes don't break the quiz's scoring.

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