>>91417269No, no it really doesn't.
>>91404540The Californian economy is explicitly the result of a massive wealth transfer scheme through money printing and government incentivizing companies to move there and build factories and shipyards for the war effort and cold war naval movements in east asia, it is not a naturally produced economy. It is like saying Maryland and Virginia have high average incomes, but their money is just government contractors grifting off the government, or new york being rich but it's actually just hedge funds. California's "new and big" industry became, 99% of which is also a grift- no money actually exists in youtube poops, the entire scene is adspam (I have adblock) to try and sell you garbage you don't need. None of that is actual production and that's the bulk of their gdp. Non-meme stuff produced there such as agriculture ends up being dumb shit like raspberries and other 'luxury' foods which are not necessary or useful to keeping a country alive, but stroking the dicks of people looking for a little something extra. That's the entire state- a grift for a little something extra. Remove the actual productivity of all the other states and it ceases to exist completely, as it is an overpopulated dump where most of the population lives in dried out desert areas in the south with the north being a dilapidated shithole.
Big number is not best number but I know most humans mentally can't wrap their brain around that.
