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as a counterargument, every single aerospace engineer I know (a few dozen), mainly in socal, has no plans of ever leaving. in fact, aerospace engineers I know f

as a counterargument, every single aerospace engineer I know (a few dozen), mainly in socal, has no plans of ever leaving. in fact, aerospace engineers I know from the UK and europe are dying to move to the US. I buy that people they spoke to "think" about it, like people saying they were going to leave the US when trump was elected but no mass exodus occurred. it feels like pure fear mongering with people "thinking" or "considering", since that means nothing. The US isn't falling or dying, and even if it was its worth saving rather than running away. they're even spouting misinformation like the USG is preventing people from revoking citizenship because they dont want people to leave, despite the reason this was occuring was because of COVID regulations. The US is the greatest country in the world, bar none. It has a lot to improve upon and these intelligent people should try their hardest to improve it. this article is anti-american at best and is abundant with conspiracy theories to the point it is noncredible.

somenameforme 3y ago
Many companies are indeed leaving California [1], and moving to 'friendlier' areas. The same has been true of numerous high income/wealth individuals. If California levies a wealth tax, I'd expect them to accelerate the decline. Norway actually had their own experience with this recently. They decided to slightly raise the wealth tax (which they already had in place) to try to squeeze their highest wealth citizens even more. Enough people left the country that their net tax revenue actually decreased. [2] To stop this, they're now considering trying to pass an 'exit tax' where people who leave the country will be taxed. I'm sure that'll work out great for them. I'd never heard the term kakistocracy before this article, but wow does it fit for much of the world's governance in modern times. [1] - https://buildremote.co/companies/companies-leaving-california/ https://buildremote.co/companies/companies-leaving-californi... [2] - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/04/10/norway-wealth-tax-billionaire-flee-switzerland/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/04/10/norway-wealt...

somenameforme 3y ago

Many companies are indeed leaving California [1], and moving to 'friendlier' areas. The same has been true of numerous high income/wealth individuals. If California levies a wealth tax, I'd expect them to accelerate the decline. Norway actually had their own experience with this recently. They decided to slightly raise the wealth tax (which they already had in place) to try to squeeze their highest wealth citizens even more. Enough people left the country that their net tax revenue actually decreased. [2] To stop this, they're now considering trying to pass an 'exit tax' where people who leave the country will be taxed. I'm sure that'll work out great for them. I'd never heard the term kakistocracy before this article, but wow does it fit for much of the world's governance in modern times. [1] - https://buildremote.co/companies/companies-leaving-california/ https://buildremote.co/companies/companies-leaving-californi... [2] - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/04/10/norway-wealth-tax-billionaire-flee-switzerland/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/04/10/norway-wealt...