Liberals will use this to make the argument that Blue State Socialist Economics actually works.
Most progressive place but sharpest contempt for poor people.
Most open place, but least tolerance of differences.
The creepy part about Facebook culture:
All employees are REQUIRED to be evaluated twice yearly on a 1-5 scale by 3 people who know them at Facebook, and none of them can be the 3 people YOU evaluated. You can’t roll over those same evaluators each year, either. So a good habit is to always be grooming 3 people for that purpose.
So it’s IMPOSSIBLE to be genuinely nice at Facebook —your approach will ALWAYS be construed as this semi-creepy RECRUITING pitch, akin to the awkward friendliness of a military recruiter, scientologist, or MLM salesman. And you will take that same view of others, too.
You’re REQUIRED to be nice, and there’s no such thing as sincerity at Facebook.
It’s 100% fake, 100% of the time.
That did not stop California politicians from squandering the windfall that this wondrous new technology generated. California has a huge, unmanageable state debt that is now dragging its economy down. Smart people are looking to leave.
Next they drove out productive business with their taxes.
Then they incentivized the non-producers to move in and drain the state and local coffers.
Along the way they wasted Billions on non-value added projects like the train to and from nowhere.
They continue to incentivize drug use while refusing to enforce selective laws...
The home of Skynet.
This is like NYS relying solely on a single “industry”. (Wall Street) and killing virtually every other incentive with horrific economic/tax policies.
NYS has had an outflow of population for decades with about a million in the last 10 years.
California rated biggest contributor to America’s (Bullshit) productivity growth
Fixed it.
The BLS is a political agency prone to lying and making up numbers. It’s a liberal propaganda machine. I wouldn’t trust them to tell me the time of day.
It seems predictions of the demise of CA have been premature.
And driven by a jealous hatred.
California productivity growth rate is so good they still have to raise taxes every year on everything.
I do not believe this statistic. They must have subtracted out the immense drain of taxes and regulation in Kalifornia on businesses.