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So using your logic. Someone living in a 3rd world nation that has nice weather, nice scenery, beaches with warm water etc. should have a good Quality of Life, despite the fact that they barely scrape by. I for one, think that they don't have a good quality of life.
Who's scraping by? You? I'm certainly not.
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Why would we want more white collar snobs who think they're smarter and better than everyone else? Yuck.
I'm certainly smarter than you. Which is quite obvious based on your comments and laughable questions. But in general, the answer to your question is the state does. We pay more taxes, require less public services, create more value and jobs for the region.
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Detroit, Cleveland and Pittsburgh are not what they are because of manufacturing. They are in their present shape because of lack of manufacturing. The good paying jobs left. They were shipped off to China, who contrary to your argument, is doing pretty well with a manufacturing based economy. Meanwhile, we do have high tech and innovation, which is also important, but we also have high trade deficits because we import so many goods which undermines our economy. There are plenty of wealthy countries where the manufacturing sector is a significant pert of the economy such as Germany, Japan, South Korea. Seems like they do pretty well with a "20th Century" economic model.
They left because doing manufacturing work was replaced by automation and the remainder was sent to the cheap labor all over the world that can do it. So they outsource it to the places where they aren't full of lazy unionized blue collar workers who sit around and do nothing all day.
And LOL @ China is doing well. China has a median household income of about $10,000 (USD) per year. They don't have free elections. They're run by a socialist, one-party, authoritarian government. Feel free move there. I'm sure you'd love it.
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You should be thankful that where you live has blue collar workers nearby and hasn't been taken over by the College graduates, otherwise you would have to get up off your little tushy and mow your own lawn.
Yep I pay my gardener to drive in and mow my lawn once a week. That's what I pay them for. It's called opportunity cost. I pay my gardener $100/mo. Which translates to roughly $25/hour. I make much more than $25/hour. Therefore if I'm going to do work, why would I waste my time only earning $25/hour when I have a skillset that is much more highly compensated and valued by society?
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Doctors, Engineers ans Software Developers are important people to have, but they still need people to grow the food they buy, transport the food and sell it. They also need someone to build their home and be able to maintain it. Doctors need various medical staff, some of who don't have college degrees. Engineers depend on people who work in manufacturing, lab technicians and other non-college graduates who are essential for them to do their jobs.
So what? Are these non-college graduates rare? California has 40 million people.Of that only 30% have college degrees and only 10% have professional or graduate degrees. I can assure you which one is more in demand right now and which has a lower supply. Ergo which one is getting paid.
Can't address the comment can you? I simply said that Cost of Loving and Quality of Life are indeed tied together. If you cannot make a good living, the amenities don't matter because you are busy simply providing for your survival.
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I'm certainly smarter than you. Which is quite obvious based on your comments and laughable questions. But in general, the answer to your question is the state does. We pay more taxes, require less public services, create more value and jobs for the region.
If you were smarter, you would realize that a diverse economy is a better economy. California used to be virtually recession proof because it was the leader in so many industries. As some of those industries have left the state, California has become more and more dependent on Silicon Valley and its employees for tax revenue. There will be a lesson to be learned one day about putting all of your eggs in one basket. And one thing that you still cannot admit. White collar workers cannot survive without the blue collar workers. And vice versa of course.
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They left because doing manufacturing work was replaced by automation and the remainder was sent to the cheap labor all over the world that can do it. So they outsource it to the places where they aren't full of lazy unionized blue collar workers who sit around and do nothing all day.
And LOL @ China is doing well. China has a median household income of about $10,000 (USD) per year. They don't have free elections. They're run by a socialist, one-party, authoritarian government. Feel free move there. I'm sure you'd love it.
Now you're avoiding the main point because you have no rebuttal. I never said China is doing well. I simply said that many of our jobs were sent to China. I did mention Germany, Japan and South Korea as countries that have large manufacturing sectors and are doing quite well, but you chose to rephrase my question because you could not come up with a good argument to counter what I said.
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Yep I pay my gardener to drive in and mow my lawn once a week. That's what I pay them for. It's called opportunity cost. I pay my gardener $100/mo. Which translates to roughly $25/hour. I make much more than $25/hour. Therefore if I'm going to do work, why would I waste my time only earning $25/hour when I have a skillset that is much more highly compensated and valued by society?
You should at least have a little respect for someone who is doing that service for you instead of having such a demeaning attitude about them. Be thankful that someone is willing to do that work. As I think about it, you seem to be a very entitled and ungrateful person.
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So what? Are these non-college graduates rare? California has 40 million people.Of that only 30% have college degrees and only 10% have professional or graduate degrees. I can assure you which one is more in demand right now and which has a lower supply. Ergo which one is getting paid.
Seems like they're all getting paid if they're working, including a good portion of the college graduates who are working at Starbucks because they couldn't get a job doing what they went to college for.
Can't address the comment can you? I simply said that Cost of Loving and Quality of Life are indeed tied together. If you cannot make a good living, the amenities don't matter because you are busy simply providing for your survival.
Not all things that add to quality of life cost money. Going to the beach or mountains is free. Enjoy a nice sunny day when it's 68 degrees in the dead of winter is free. I'm not here to give people like you handouts. If you want free money to go enjoy whatever amenities you need then feel free to move to a socialist/collectivist country like China or Germany. I'm sure you would fit right in.
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If you were smarter, you would realize that a diverse economy is a better economy. California used to be virtually recession proof because it was the leader in so many industries. As some of those industries have left the state, California has become more and more dependent on Silicon Valley and its employees for tax revenue. There will be a lesson to be learned one day about putting all of your eggs in one basket. And one thing that you still cannot admit. White collar workers cannot survive without the blue collar workers. And vice versa of course.
Los Angeles is the largest manufacturing, transportation, and logistics hub in the US. Los Angeles is the entertainment capital of the US. Silicon Valley is the largest tech and VC market in the US. Central Valley is the largest agricultural production region in the US. Napa/Sonoma is the most well respected and profitable wine growing region in the US. San Diego is one of the top biotech regions in the US. Orange County has a diverse economy with tech, tourism, and real estate. It also is a top producer in the energy section with oil production/refining as well as solar energy production.
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Now you're avoiding the main point because you have no rebuttal. I never said China is doing well. I simply said that many of our jobs were sent to China. I did mention Germany, Japan and South Korea as countries that have large manufacturing sectors and are doing quite well, but you chose to rephrase my question because you could not come up with a good argument to counter what I said.
Sure thing buddy. This is your literal quote:
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They were shipped off to China, who contrary to your argument, is doing pretty well with a manufacturing based economy.
Does that refresh your memory a bit? I know it's hard to keep track of this stuff sometimes.
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You should at least have a little respect for someone who is doing that service for you instead of having such a demeaning attitude about them. Be thankful that someone is willing to do that work. As I think about it, you seem to be a very entitled and ungrateful person.
OK. What are you going to do about it?
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Seems like they're all getting paid if they're working, including a good portion of the college graduates who are working at Starbucks because they couldn't get a job doing what they went to college for.
That's factually not true and only was even somewhat true in for recent graduates just coming out of undergrad from about 2009-2012 during the WORST RECESSION in 80 years. If you were so smart you would know that. What's the unemployment or underemployment rate of college graduates vs high school graduates right now in August 2020? How about for professional degrees?
Not all things that add to quality of life cost money. Going to the beach or mountains is free. Enjoy a nice sunny day when it's 68 degrees in the dead of winter is free. I'm not here to give people like you handouts. If you want free money to go enjoy whatever amenities you need then feel free to move to a socialist/collectivist country like China or Germany. I'm sure you would fit right in.
No, actually I wouldn't fit right in. I'm one of the ones paying taxes out the wazoo (over $100,000 per year) propping up the deadbeats. One of the reasons that California has the problems that it does is because it is being run by people with socialist tendencies. But your original point that Cost of living is not connected to Quality of life is simply not true. My original point was that someone living in a 3rd world country that has nice weather and nice beaches, does not have a good quality of life because the cost of living is so high. Not that they can't ever enjoy the weather and the environment around then. Simply that cost of living does indeed affect quality of life. Fortunately, we don't live in a 3rd world country, so we can enjoy the nice weather and other natural things that California offers.
California's economy is not as diverse as it once was. As industries such as manufacturing have been shrinking in the state, California is more and more dependent on Silicon Valley for its revenue. Even Silicon Valley used to be a manufacturing hub. In fact, it started as the area where most of the chips were being made. Now, as state regulations have pushed manufacturing out of California, Silicon Valley is mostly in the Software business...not completely, but there is very little manufacturing that goes on there outside of short run.
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Los Angeles is the largest manufacturing, transportation, and logistics hub in the US. Los Angeles is the entertainment capital of the US. Silicon Valley is the largest tech and VC market in the US. Central Valley is the largest agricultural production region in the US. Napa/Sonoma is the most well respected and profitable wine growing region in the US. San Diego is one of the top biotech regions in the US. Orange County has a diverse economy with tech, tourism, and real estate. It also is a top producer in the energy section with oil production/refining as well as solar energy production.
Funny how many of the industries that you mention have the workers that you despise and wish didn't live here. I agree that California ranks high in many industries. Some because of its sheer size and population, others because of its weather and how fertile the soil is and the fact that previous generations in the state were able to build an elaborate system that was able to bring water from the Sierra's to the rest of that state.
You stated in a previous post:
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If you want to be a rust belt manufacturing center, you're going the way of Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh. That's a completely backwards looking mindset. So yeah, good luck living with 20th century manufacturing jobs in a 21st century digital economy.
Yet you go on to state how great California's economy is while citing it being a leader in these types of industries that you claim are backwards thinking and not keeping up with the digital economy.
If everything switches over to a digital economy, like you want it to, and as has been happening in the State, then California's economy will continue to become less diverse and the industries that you tout as California being a leader in, and the diverse economy that you laud will become less diverse.
We need a diverse economy, not everyone will be a software engineer or UX designer. We need other types of workers as well. Otherwise there will be a great imbalance.
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Sure thing buddy. This is your literal quote:
Does that refresh your memory a bit? I know it's hard to keep track of this stuff sometimes.
OK. What are you going to do about it?
China is doing pretty well with being a manufacturing based economy. They were able to increase their national wealth immensely. If you look at the size of their economy 30 years ago vs. now, they have grown much wealthier. I did not say that they have a particularly high per-capita income. I did list other high income countries that have large manufacturing sectors though.
No, actually I wouldn't fit right in. I'm one of the ones paying taxes out the wazoo (over $100,000 per year) propping up the deadbeats. One of the reasons that California has the problems that it does is because it is being run by people with socialist tendencies. But your original point that Cost of living is not connected to Quality of life is simply not true. My original point was that someone living in a 3rd world country that has nice weather and nice beaches, does not have a good quality of life because the cost of living is so high. Not that they can't ever enjoy the weather and the environment around then. Simply that cost of living does indeed affect quality of life. Fortunately, we don't live in a 3rd world country, so we can enjoy the nice weather and other natural things that California offers.
California's economy is not as diverse as it once was. As industries such as manufacturing have been shrinking in the state, California is more and more dependent on Silicon Valley for its revenue. Even Silicon Valley used to be a manufacturing hub. In fact, it started as the area where most of the chips were being made. Now, as state regulations have pushed manufacturing out of California, Silicon Valley is mostly in the Software business...not completely, but there is very little manufacturing that goes on there outside of short run.
Funny how many of the industries that you mention have the workers that you despise and wish didn't live here. I agree that California ranks high in many industries. Some because of its sheer size and population, others because of its weather and how fertile the soil is and the fact that previous generations in the state were able to build an elaborate system that was able to bring water from the Sierra's to the rest of that state.
You stated in a previous post:
Yet you go on to state how great California's economy is while citing it being a leader in these types of industries that you claim are backwards thinking and not keeping up with the digital economy.
If everything switches over to a digital economy, like you want it to, and as has been happening in the State, then California's economy will continue to become less diverse and the industries that you tout as California being a leader in, and the diverse economy that you laud will become less diverse.
We need a diverse economy, not everyone will be a software engineer or UX designer. We need other types of workers as well. Otherwise there will be a great imbalance.
China is doing pretty well with being a manufacturing based economy. They were able to increase their national wealth immensely. If you look at the size of their economy 30 years ago vs. now, they have grown much wealthier. I did not say that they have a particularly high per-capita income. I did list other high income countries that have large manufacturing sectors though.
Fake news. So much of this is just blatantly wrong lmao.
In most neighborhoods, neighbors rarely interact. They get in their car and drive to work and drive to where they want, which is usually different than others. In the last couple of neighborhoods I lived in we knew 1 neighbor and basically other than an occasionally a wave here and there, that was it. I went to every neighbor when we moved in and said hello and in the last neighborhood where we owned a home, 1 I never saw again, another was rarely even seen, a 3rd was friendly but gone a lot and a 4th I only saw the kids. This is common in So California as I have lived all over the area. Some neighborhoods are family oriented, but no single neighborhood I have ever lived in ever cared about the politics of the neighbors. Probably because they do see how some become very divisive about it and they would refer to avoid that situation.
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