I agree.
What I meant was that if California and its people who contribute to technology suddenly vanished, a lot of those companies whose manufacturing operations are outside CA would wither away.
Spaced out industries like narcotic production.
No offense, but that's nonsense. California doesn't have some magical property that gives it a monopoly on tech talent. There are talented people living all across this country.
I was born in California, and spent half a century of my life there. It's a beautiful place with great weather, but it's one of the most screwball places in America, and becoming more screwed up by the day. As a result, the exodus of native born Americans out of there is unprecedented.
Soon enough, all that will be left there will be the unable, the crackpots, the criminals, the gimme class, and a small percentage of elites who have the money and power to wall themselves off from the insanity.