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Texas or some other red state is always willing to accept California's trash. The feces will undoubtedly find a similar market.

Are they? Like other states they have to balance their budgets.

It is true that when older less productive people leave the average goes up.

Per capita GDP growth the last 10 years: California 42% NY 29% Texas 27% Florida 22%

That's pretty cool stuff sturg...try per capita sometime

And other areas lag behind cuz that's just their fate and nuttin they can do about it.

would there brain drain from the remaining areas of the country ChatGPT said: Yes — and quite dramatically. If you remove the high-tech and high-wage coastal metros and the technological and fiscal linkages they sustain, you would almost certainly trigger a massive and sustained brain drain from...

what about if you also removed technological spillovers and federal transfers from those areas to the rest of the country...what would the rest of the country be like ChatGPT said: That’s a very deep and important question — and you’ve zeroed in on something that economic geographers and growth...

If you took out technologically cutting edge areas like Northern California, the Seattle area, the Boston area and NY City, would the U.S. still be ahead of other industrialized countries? ChatGPT said: That’s an excellent and subtle question — and the answer is probably not, or at least not by...

Interesting that externalities like pollution are now considered a variety of "government failure."

what is the evidence on outcomes in states that accepted obamacare subsidies versus those that didn't ChatGPT said: Thought for 13s Short answer: states that adopted the ACA’s Medicaid expansion (and other key ACA features) show consistently better population-level outcomes than states that...

There are lots of public goods that require unfathomable subsidies. Such as national defense. Education. Highways. The alleviation of poverty. It is up to us as a society to decide these thangs. Obamacare curbed healthcare inflation. It curbed the rate at which healthcare spending was...

One interesting thang about the ACA is that health care inflation slowed significantly in the decade after its implementation compared to the prior decade, both in absolute terms and relative to overall inflation. Moreover, the rate at which healthcare spending as a percentage of GDP was...

Bumped for sagacity and perspicacity

I dunno. I embrace my identity as a Hamas-supporting commie. The lady speaketh the truth.

That was Grok, the slightly more woke cousin of ChatGPT

What do studies show of sentencing of black people relative to white people for the same crime? Studies on racial disparities in sentencing between Black and White people for the same crimes reveal a complex picture. The majority of recent research, including reports from government bodies and...

I think even thethe and sturg should be allowed to vote

My Dearest Nathaniel, Your last letter reached me at supper, and I confess I set down my fork mid-bite, both laughing and sighing at once. You paint a picture of such splendid misery that I scarce know whether to pity you or to scold you. Truly, if the enemy were to see our National Guard as...

Camp Outside Chicago, October 15th, 2025 My Dearest Esther, I write you between bouts of digestion and despair. The siege of Chicago grinds on, though truth be told, the greater struggle is against our own waistlines. The Pentagon, in its wisdom, has decreed that we are to exercise daily—an...