Tech billionaires are making plans to bail on California ahead a possible ballot measure that would tax their assets to help pay for healthcare.

Sources told the New York Times that venture capitalist Peter Thiel has explored spending more time outside California and opening an office for his Los Angeles-based personal investment firm, Thiel Capital, in another state.

  • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    edit-2
    4 days ago

    Blue maine is doing just about as good as red kentucky, no? A bunch of poor, drug-addled white people barely scraping by. A good economy lifts up the poor, and the poor in both of those states, despite glaringly different politics, have a lot of the same outcomes. Honestly, the people of Kentucky are way more diverse and I’m happy for that. So many white people in Maine it isn’t even funny as a non white person. Every person I know up in Maine has some family member that was in the Free Mason cult, which is like the cult for rural religious and affluent white people

    • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      4 days ago

      Blue maine is doing just about as good as red kentucky, no?

      Median income in Maine is 14% higher than in Kentucky. Maine’s the poorest state in New England, but that would land it somewhere in the middle of southern states.

      • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        4 days ago

        Yeah, kentucky is a very poor state, its pretty sad but at least its just easy to blame on mitch, which isnt wrong. No idea whats going on up in Maine though. Someone should look into that. Im only getting familiar with the place because I got people up there and I love it, but man the parallels to kentucky are incredible despite me hoping it would be a lot… better since its consistently bluer than KY.

    • I know a guy who’s a Mason. I got him to talk when he was drunk. Sounds to me like it’s a way for rich white people to make business connections and enrich themselves further, with a dose of silly mysticism on top. They’re all Christians.