Correction, over 90% of job growth is going to foreign born workers
Source?
Job growth is booming across the U.S. but not in California. Here's why
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Re: Job growth is booming across the U.S. but not in California. Here's why
#42Living in SoCal still offers distinct advantages in terms of civil rights, a social safety net, and access to a vast number of small and large businesses (for both work and services). The entry-level job thing is compounded by requirements for degrees and experience that fully expect folks to down-skill to lower-wage roles. One factor that looms large is the gig economy: Uber/Lyft/DoorDash/etc. They've become a lynch…
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California's maximum unemployment payout is below its minimum wage.
Re: Job growth is booming across the U.S. but not in California. Here's why
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not being beaten up by police is part of your rights, but freely deciding how you want to work with someone else, and not being forced into the gig economy, is a right too. Every state seems to have certain coalitions with way too much power, and in California it's exercised whenever well-established interests can rephrase something that benefits them in economically leftist language: "Let's all raise the wages of pi…
I think it’s funny how you’re basically criticizing the richest state for having the best policies and outcomes. Like what about Alabama? They are objectively worse at everything and they do exactly what you prescribe.
They're not actually worse at housing costs. But they have their own way-too-powerful coalitions that cause other troubles.
Re: Job growth is booming across the U.S. but not in California. Here's why
#44Living in SoCal still offers distinct advantages in terms of civil rights, a social safety net, and access to a vast number of small and large businesses (for both work and services). The entry-level job thing is compounded by requirements for degrees and experience that fully expect folks to down-skill to lower-wage roles. One factor that looms large is the gig economy: Uber/Lyft/DoorDash/etc. They've become a lynch…
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> If not, what specifically are you talking about?
The right to have an abortion for one.
Re: Job growth is booming across the U.S. but not in California. Here's why
#45California is full, plain and simple. The people who live there and control the land have decided so, both implicitly and explicitly.
I realized after a while of living there that California is run as a real estate cartel. Land owners who bought when the state was cheap own it, and everyone who bought later is beholden and locked in with golden handcuffs to the high price environment they created. I call it a cartel because the scarcity is 100% a policy choice. Density is not high, public transit is awful, and there is a ton of land left to develop…
If you consider Texas more liberal than California purely on the basis of home affordability it is clear you're not interested in making a serious point.
Re: Job growth is booming across the U.S. but not in California. Here's why
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
I realized after a while of living there that California is run as a real estate cartel. Land owners who bought when the state was cheap own it, and everyone who bought later is beholden and locked in with golden handcuffs to the high price environment they created. I call it a cartel because the scarcity is 100% a policy choice. Density is not high, public transit is awful, and there is a ton of land left to develop…
> California is run as a real estate cartel Literally the political power that got Tesla off the ground (with fed funding) to save real estate prices in the San Bernadino Valley, LA, etc.
Tesla's primary R&D and manufacturing operations are in the San Francisco Bay Area. How does that impact land values in Southern California?
Re: Job growth is booming across the U.S. but not in California. Here's why
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
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The probability of an HIV+ person on antivirals, with undetectable levels of the virus, transmitting it to you, is lower than the probability of someone who thinks they're HIV- transmitting it to you. It is correct for the law to reflect this reality. We all know that the way the world works is that unintentional actions from stigmatized minorities are treated as intentional. I'd recommend this article from Lambda Le…
I'm not so sure that a right to give me a cold is a good idea... Especially when there are options like outdoor air ventilation that reduce the spread of airborne viruses.
Maybe there should be some sort of liability for preventable spread of disease.
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#48Re: Job growth is booming across the U.S. but not in California. Here's why
#49> “The reason why Texas and Florida are doing well and California isn’t, it’s the cost of housing and high taxes,” said Sung Won Sohn, an economist at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. “We have lost a lot of small businesses.” This former is the crux of the problem: California entered into a suicide pact with real estate speculators in the 70s, from which it seems entirely unwilling to extricate itself. It’…
As much as I love California doomerism, the "suicide pact" is fraying and we should appreciate that. Split roll for commercial property tax assessments only lost by 2% on the ballot in 2020 which is a winnable margin. There are many statewide bills passed and proposed for loosening regulation. The legislature is working on reforming outdated insurance regulations that have precipitated the current crisis, etc.
The state has problems but they are not as structural and intractable as most people want to be believe.
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The probability of an HIV+ person on antivirals, with undetectable levels of the virus, transmitting it to you, is lower than the probability of someone who thinks they're HIV- transmitting it to you. It is correct for the law to reflect this reality. We all know that the way the world works is that unintentional actions from stigmatized minorities are treated as intentional. I'd recommend this article from Lambda Le…
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