Comment by mrtksn
16 days ago
Right, that's why at the heart of the tech innovation peple are running from mentally ill homeless people the insulating themselves in gated communities to pretend like living in a german village. Huge success.
I wouldn't obsess too much with the GDP too, its not as good as a proxy to the important stuff as people are trying to make it. An appendicitis surgery generates much more economic activity in USA than in Europe and Americans don't end with better appendixes.
The homeless people is a regulation failure, other cities have much better ways of dealing with them, California simply doesn't want to.
GDP is a good measure in general, because again, economic activity is correlated with higher outcomes. See China now versus 100 years ago.
If you paid me just the difference between a US and European Google software engineer salary, I’d be willing to run from homeless people all day
Besides, that’s why americans have cars to insulate them from the unwashed masses