Bull crap, I say.
Back in the 1990s when I worked for a large cellular company, everyone knew that if you took the same level job in our San Diego or San Francisco markets, for the same position or at an equivalent level, you would make easily 30% MORE there, aside from any raise which might be involved for a promotion. Bottom line: IT'S MORE EXPENSIVE THERE.
Who's paying for that? Were Californians' cellular bills that much greater? Hell no. If higher at all, not much . . . EXCEPT surely the TAXES states and government in general love to attach to such bills. No, my company was just as competitive as any other players in the market, as aggressive as the complex web of state regulations would allow.
No, MUCH of those necessarily HIGHER wages, so that employees might actually be able to AFFORD to live there, MUCH of those wages were surely coming from OTHER markets around the country.
One BIG pot from which California -- where they think their crap doesn't stink even though most Americans might say it smells WORSE -- demanded more than its share to support an out-of-control Jabba The Hut-like government determined to do and FUND whatever warped program, pay scale, bill it wished.
Cellular bills were simply my experience. Anything and everything you can buy across the country surely has a similar story behind it.
California is like the ill-behaved teenager who needs some time with a foul-mouthed inmate to scare them straight. California (Illinois, New York, WASHINGTON, etc.) is due for that encounter.
I hope Americans are ready.
(And, yeah, thought about going with a smaller or scaled down image, but I liked this one BIG!!!)
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