Monday, December 23, 2019

The Not-So-Golden State

man standing on white concrete building under white sky


City Journal: Joel Kotkin sees California as on the path to high-tech feudalism. An excerpt:

In truth, the Golden State is becoming a semi-feudal kingdom, with the nation’s widest gap between middle and upper incomes—72 percent, compared with the U.S. average of 57 percent—and its highest poverty rate. Roughly half of America’s homeless live in Los Angeles or San Francisco, which now has the highest property crime rate among major cities. California hasn’t yet become a full-scale dystopia, of course, but it’s heading in a troubling direction.


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