For all its faults, California really got this one right. In some ways, this goes to show just how remarkably harmful non-competes are to the economy. If you ma

For all its faults, California really got this one right. In some ways, this goes to show just how remarkably harmful non-competes are to the economy. If you make non-competes unenforceable, you can put all kinds of barriers up and still have a thriving tech industry (a high concentration of research universities didn't hurt either).