I’m not throwing shade at California, I’m throwing shade on you for touting a budget surplus as proof the economy wasn’t hurt by draconian lockdown measures.
The primary drivers of the California economy were largely unaffected and some even benefitted from the pandemic. But it also devastated many small businesses and lower class working people while people with tech jobs flourished and refinanced their ever more ridiculously valuable homes at ridiculously low interest rates and/or purchased investment properties with that cheap money.
I mean...no wonder you want to hold on to COVID. You’re making money hand over fist, you get to virtue signal about case rates and vaccines, and you probably didn’t even have a social life to begin with.
I say this as someone who draws the majority of his income from a tech company based in San Marcos and took advantage of these situations like any reasonably intelligent person would. But I have a lot of empathy for the people who experienced real hardship be it physically, mentally, or financially, and wish there had been a more reasonable solution for them.
Think of the little people, Murph. One thing is clear: The rich got richer and the poor got poorer. But hey you probably don’t mind some tax dollars pouring into homeless tent towns in SF as long as they aren’t camping in the lawn of your McMansion in Healdsburg or your investment property at Tahoe, right?
For the record this is all for the sake of discussion.
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