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California has already said non-competes are unenforceable: https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-reminds-employers-and-workers-noncomp

• dragonwriter 4y ago
  The theory of California losing an advantage is that California’s stance on noncompetes is an advantage, that it would lose if it were the national rule.
• deathanatos 4y ago
  If I read them charitably, maybe it's a "CA has a competitive advantage by having saner labor protections", an advantage which would be lost (relatively) as everyone in the nation would get it. …which … great!
• paxys 4y ago
  That's their point. Non-competes being unenforceable is the biggest advantage California has over every other state that has been trying to set up their own "silicon valley" for the last N decades. If the law is forced on them, they might actually succeed.