"California’s descent to socialism"

That's the plan for the entire world. Not just California.

I don't know about you, but I'm totally in favor of mass homelessness and malnutrition. Keep the fucking proles in line.

PurpleJ said:

That's the plan for the entire world. Not just California.

California leads the way!

Kansas already tried the "conservative utopia" experiment and it was a complete fucking disaster. Let's see what Cali can do batting from the other side of the plate.

bananasnblondes said:

Kansas already tried the "conservative utopia" experiment and it was a complete fucking disaster. Let's see what Cali can do batting from the other side of the plate.

That needs a do-over because Kansans are inherently the dumbest motherfucking people on the planet.

I kid you not, I do business all over the country - and those fuckers are in an idiot class by themselves.

This is what Alex Jones would sound like if he was a democrat.

GrundleStiltzkin said:

http://www.dailynews.com/opinion/20170611/californias-descent-to-socialism-joel-kotkin

California is widely celebrated as the fount of technical, cultural and political innovation. Now we seem primed to outdo even ourselves, creating a new kind of socialism that, in the end, more resembles feudalism than social democracy.

The new consensus is being pushed by, among others, hedge-fund-billionaire-turned-green-patriarch Tom Steyer. The financier now insists that, to reverse our worsening inequality, we must double down on environmental and land-use regulation, and make up for it by boosting subsidies for the struggling poor and middle class. This new progressive synthesis promises not upward mobility and independence, but rather the prospect of turning most Californians into either tax slaves or dependent serfs.

The oligarchs of the Bay Area have a problem: They must square their progressive worldview with their enormous wealth. They certainly are not socialists in the traditional sense. They see their riches not as a result of class advantages, but rather as reflective of their meritocratic superiority. As former TechCrunch reporter Gregory Ferenstein has observed, they embrace massive inequality as both a given and a logical outcome of the new economy.

The nerd estate is definitely not stupid, and like rulers everywhere, they worry about a revolt of the masses, and even the unionization of their companies. Their gambit is to expand the welfare state to keep the hoi polloi in line. Many, including Mark Zuckerberg, now favor an income stipend that could prevent mass homelessness and malnutrition.

Joel kotkin sounds poor and unskilled. We don't want him in California.

Mosster47 said:

PurpleThrobber said:

bananasnblondes said:

Kansas already tried the "conservative utopia" experiment and it was a complete fucking disaster. Let's see what Cali can do batting from the other side of the plate.

That needs a do-over because Kansans are inherently the dumbest motherfucking people on the planet.

I kid you not, I do business all over the country - and those fuckers are in an idiot class by themselves.

Rural Oregon is a special kind of stupid now too. They haven't had a sense or purpose since 2004. Survival mode for 13 years churns out insane stupidity.

It's been longer than 13 years. Locking up the Forests and leaving them to over growth and disease, all the while decimating most of rural Oregon's economy must have looked so good on paper when Clinton signed those laws. But Hey, they saved habitat for an Owl, that it turns out doesn't really thrive here anyway.

But if those loggers and mill workers would have just learned to write code, their towns wouldn't be in the predicament they are in, right?

salemcoog said:

Mosster47 said:

PurpleThrobber said:

bananasnblondes said:

Kansas already tried the "conservative utopia" experiment and it was a complete fucking disaster. Let's see what Cali can do batting from the other side of the plate.

That needs a do-over because Kansans are inherently the dumbest motherfucking people on the planet.

I kid you not, I do business all over the country - and those fuckers are in an idiot class by themselves.

Rural Oregon is a special kind of stupid now too. They haven't had a sense or purpose since 2004. Survival mode for 13 years churns out insane stupidity.

It's been longer than 13 years. Locking up the Forests and leaving them to over growth and disease, all the while decimating most of rural Oregon's economy must have looked so good on paper when Clinton signed those laws. But Hey, they saved habitat for an Owl, that it turns out doesn't really thrive here anyway.

But if those loggers and mill workers would have just learned to write code, their towns wouldn't be in the predicament they are in, right?

Triggered fucking simpleton.

2001400ex said:

salemcoog said:

Mosster47 said:

PurpleThrobber said:

bananasnblondes said:

Kansas already tried the "conservative utopia" experiment and it was a complete fucking disaster. Let's see what Cali can do batting from the other side of the plate.

That needs a do-over because Kansans are inherently the dumbest motherfucking people on the planet.

I kid you not, I do business all over the country - and those fuckers are in an idiot class by themselves.

Rural Oregon is a special kind of stupid now too. They haven't had a sense or purpose since 2004. Survival mode for 13 years churns out insane stupidity.

It's been longer than 13 years. Locking up the Forests and leaving them to over growth and disease, all the while decimating most of rural Oregon's economy must have looked so good on paper when Clinton signed those laws. But Hey, they saved habitat for an Owl, that it turns out doesn't really thrive here anyway.

But if those loggers and mill workers would have just learned to write code, their towns wouldn't be in the predicament they are in, right?

Wait, now you want to control the environment? Which is it?