Hate California?
let’s unpack that shall we….
Much of America hates California. The red states have been well trained and they have obeyed orders like good little children — they hate everything about California, and have a special place in their hearts for hating San Francisco. New York hates San Francisco, but that’s for obvious reasons: we’re home to the companies that have disrupted media, television, advertising, music, real estate and several other industries NY thought it used to own. Oops, sorry guys.
Californians hate California too. Drive out into rural areas and the political map quickly turns red. You’ll hear unabridged vitriol against the open border situation, the immigrant ‘situation’, and of course you’ll hear about the Gavernor, Newsom. San Franciscans hate tech bros and tech founder billionaires, and in general they hate the rich, which is problematic in a city that is home to a huge chunk of America’s wealthiest people. 530,000 people in San Francisco metropolitan area are worth over $5M. Stop and think about that.
The blue area shows the states whose total economic output is lower than that of SF Bay Area. Not kidding. This number is not a sum of static wealth, but movement of money and value. In other words, the total financial transactions reported within the state. Only TX, FL, NY and IL made it.
