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California’s GDP is now twice as large as Russia’s. Yet the President of the United States seems to spend a lot of time trying to make Russians happy, and zero
by pavlov 2y ago
California’s GDP is now twice as large as Russia’s.
Yet the President of the United States seems to spend a lot of time trying to make Russians happy, and zero time making Californians happy.
- Afforess 2y agoCalifornia should acquire some nuclear weapons then.
- kubb 2y agoThey should promise him a cut.
- ninetyninenine 2y agoAll our GDP is in software. We don't know how to make anything except AI and web apps. We wouldn't know what to do with a nuke.
- rafale 2y agoAsk Nevada.
- b112 2y agoIncredibly wrong. Hollywood is still a thing. Manufacturing, yes manufacturing. Agriculture. The Bay Area is a fraction of that GDP, and a small geographical part of California.
- grugagag 2y agoHollywood is becoming irrelevant fast. At least that’s been the trend as of late.
- oblio 2y agoThat's transitioning to streaming services which still have studios.
- AlotOfReading 2y agoAgriculture is essentially a rounding error on California's GDP, <$60B or <2%. There are individual companies more economically significant than the entire agricultural industry. The disproportionate power relative to its economic significance is a political choice.
- numpad0 2y agoSomething is seriously broken with this world now that completely normal and well educated person like GP is not realizing his words aren't making sense. Apple Park to LLNL is under an hour's drive. You guys can probably achieve nuclear independence in a day if needed. It just can't be done economically, because yields of a nuke(pun intended) don't immediately map onto economical values. Not just immensely positive or negative, but actually tangential to the currency dimensions.
- cenamus 2y agoIn that case, all of Russia GDP is oil and natural gas
- smallnix 2y agoI doubt its realistic for powerful states like California to cecede. Is there a path from here to a near (think 50 years) future, where California and the US, sans California, exist?
- RobRivera 2y agoI don't think cessation was the implication
- labster 2y agoWhy secede when we can just get our state sold to Denmark?
- anothernewdude 2y agoI doubt its realistic for powerful colonies like America to declare independence.
- fifilura 2y agoI don't want the US to break up. But I wonder if it wouldn't be more healthy for you if the states grew a bit more independent. It would give the president less power to decide exactly how schools and universities should be run or would open up for social welfare reforms in the states that want it.
- remarkEon 2y agoFun to see people derive Federalism from first principles.
- Angostura 2y agoor some kompromat
- panick21_ 2y agoNuclear weapons aren't a magical cloak that when you put it everybody has to do what you say. Its one of many consideration in foreign policy. And the idea that you have to make 'Russia happy' because they have nukes, if fucking beyond dumb.
- aoanevdus 2y agoSupposedly there are hundreds in Concord.
- hackyhacky 2y agoCalifornia is anti-American and disloyal, because they voted for the other party. /s Russia, on the other hand, supports the President, so they deserve to be rewarded.
- grugagag 2y agoPlus they helped and continue to help the president dismantle or incapacitate his own government.
- Ylpertnodi 2y ago>Russia, on the other hand, supports the President, so they deserve to be rewarded. You forgot the /SS [Not being historical, damn autocorrect, i mean hysterical, but comments; comments, they're a beautiful thing, comments - i meant /sarcasm, sarcasm. Beautiful sarcasm, they had sarcasm-such a beautiful word - two hundred years ago...etc, etc.
- jandrewrogers 2y agoOn a per capita basis, California still has some work to do. Washington, Massachusetts, and New York are all significantly higher. No one should get bonus points for having a large population.
- threatofrain 2y agoEspecially not China.