People aren't leaving because they are happy they are leaving because they are beginning to understand that there is a big wide world out there with wonders that they cannot even imagine exist yet ..... they're leaving for the same reason young people are leaving the amish world.

#FJB

There were 30 people in my team all working out of the Palo Alto office of a major tech firm in January of 2020 and today only one of them still lives in California because nobody in their right mind would live in CA if they could continue working for CA tech companies while living somewhere reasonable.

You understand that minimum wage is the least someone can pay by law and any company paying minimum wage is literally saying I donâ(TM)t give a shit about you if I could pay you less I would but I canâ(TM)t because itâ(TM)s against the lawâ¦. Knowing that how could you value yourself so little that you would be willing to work for that wage no matter now much it is unless you were a kid without trying to do something better or learn a skill so you are worth more to the market?

A group of researchers at Stanford . Have you seen that place? Because of the policies like those described in this article California is falling apart financially, Stanford campus looks like a homeless camp the whole place is a homeless garbage dump for three hundred miles south, all the infrastructure is crumbling and all of the basic services are ready to implode all because of policies like those being proposed by the administration and these Stanford scientists. If the goal is to decimate the economy while doing very little to make a difference to the environment . Winning?

Dec died because their technology stagnated

See what youâ(TM)re describing doesnâ(TM)t sound like engineering management it sounds like pure dollar based mba management ⦠the kind of thing that happened when sun Microsystems who was all engineering was bought by Oracle who didnâ(TM)t make anything just managed purchases â¦

There is zero reason, other than fraud and abuse, that anyone has a problem with requiring voter identification. Without it any human on earth can vote in place of any other human on earth. I live in Georgia, where my wife, and daughter who were not registered were registered by someone and all three of us received ballots in the mail that we did not request this year. With the previous law, anyone could have mailed those ballots back.

You know, the one where he said poor kids were just as bright and talented as white kids ....

It was all âoea bridge too farâ and calling someone deplorable or a business deplorable for allowing free thought and expression is, in fact, deplorable. But letâ(TM)s be very clear, you are calling them deplorable because they allowed the sitting president to have a voice to speak to his constituents when every tech company in the valley were saying he couldnâ(TM)t speak. The actions by google, apple an Amazon were nothing more than waking around the internet and clubbing anyone that would let a voice that you didnâ(TM)t agree with be heard and that is thoroughly unamerican.

Funny joke, my manager just moved from Palo Alto to the suburbs of Kansas City. He took the money he made by selling his 1200sq foot house in a crumbling Palo Alto community and bought a 4500sq ft house in a beautiful progressive KC suburb with a 1200sq ft guest house in the back yard for his mother-in-law, schools that aren’t falling apart and dangerous and infrastructure that is new and refreshed .... and still had money left over.

My entire team, more than 30 people, from a large tech firm in Palo Alto moved from the SF Bay Area to the whole way across the US but mostly the Midwest. They all said it was like doubling their salary.

That someone considers publishing information held in a laptop that you own because the person that dropped it off abandoned it and decided not to pay you for your services "hacking" suggests that you have absolutely no idea what "hacking" is.

People are going to continue to leave as they realize that Facebook is continuing to suppress the voices of half of the population in the country because they don't align, politically, with their liberal voice.

I guess Iâ(TM)m glad that I was never a naive as you? I never suggested, even for a moment, that corporations were your friends or that you should lock yourself down to their ecosystem. The only thing close to that that I said is that even after more than a dozen years of development Microsoft office is still far better than the open source alternatives and that having companies making mainstream desktop applications available on Linux is a good thing.