You were using that as an excuse for employment in CA being lower. If it's not that, because that is a net benefit, why do you think CA has the highest unemployment rate of all of the states in the country?

CA is a large economy, it's more planned and centralized than many others, and it's failing because planned centralized economies do not work.

1. 1. Get rid of immoral people
2. 2. Decrease the demand for housing, lowering the prices
3. 3. Decrease the supply of workers, raising the wages

If you can run a publicly traded company for less, then you should and show us how it's done. My guess is you won't be able to get capable and well connected people in leadership positions, and your company wouldn't make it.

Personally, I was happy with 3 years...

On the flip-side, Google's last AI release debacle made me lose a lot of confidence in the company; they want to control how and what people think instead of giving their customers access to information, so I may be ready to try something else; I bought my kid a Fairphone.

It's done legally because they make the laws. It's not done ethically.

Government giveaways, whether they're to corporations or "the poor and middle class", cause inflation, and inflation hurts the poor the most.