Comments by "Cross Link" (@crosslink1493) on "Let's Talk California (Has Their Lucky Streak Run Out?) || Peter Zeihan" video.

  1. Not only the natural resources, but the business community. When manufacturing departed in the 1980s-1990s (for a variety of reasons), California banked heavily of the service economy where wages are lower for most people with exceptions for legal, hi-tech, etc. This created the classic rich/poor divide we see today. California also enabled illegal immigration by passing laws that ignored immigration status and outright prohibited engaging with federal officials on enforcement. If it does start collapsing as Peter suggests in this video (to the status of a third-world state?) I will not be surprised. I'll be dead and gone by then, but I hope anyone looking to the future gets out now.
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  2. As others mention, how much are you paying? I've got a nephew who was into metalworking and machining, ability to program machine tools to cut almost anything as efficiently as possible, but he couldn't make enough to survive. He took a one-year program in HVAC and two years out of that makes more than he could in machining/metalworking (his current employer loves his ability to work with sheet metal in fabricating custom ductwork). If your wages are competing with machine shops in the midwest/south/southeast then you're not relevant to California's economy.
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  3. I'd say no as a lot of production is done outside of California these days. Some is still done here due to the nature of television (its episodic nature requires quick turn-around times), but major motion pictures are done all over the nation, if not the world. The big studios still have headquarters and sound stages here, so administration and some production is still done, but writing can be done anywhere too.
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