29 Jan 2026 3:39 pm
All excellent points!Cannonpointer » 28 Jan 2026, 8:49 pm » wrote: ↑ The consequence of low expectations of businesses is what makes states **** holes filled with trailer trash. People with intelligence GTFO to states where they can make a living. I was raised in Texas but we were forever renting out our home and leaving Texas for years at a time so the old man could make real money.
Expecting businesses to pay living wages is what makes states goers.
You can take any state in this union which spent decades at the federal minimum until it finally said no mas and substantially raised its MW, and you will see it go from **** hole to far more prosperous **** hole.
As badly as the blue states are run and as hard as their governments work to make anyone with any decency flee, they STILL have a higher standard of living and higher property values and bigger tax bases and better education outcomes etc. than the red **** holes that celebrate the virtues of slave wages.
Your low regard for people in this or that industry simply is not a part of the math equation. It's a complaint without a solution. The math says society at large is more prosperous when bottom tier workers are not paid too little to live on. Miserism begets want. Endemic poverty is the wage of sticking with the federal minimum. One can simply step across a state border from a federal minimum **** hole to a relatively rollicking economy with a state minimum.
AI is such a great tool. Watch this:
The total US economy is 31 trillion. 40% of the states are producing 21% of America's GDP??? And this INCLUDES oil rich TX and LA.
And in case you think maybe the **** holes are less populous, so this is not apples to apples, here comes AI again:
Considering how incredibly badly run the blue states are, imagine how quickly they would implode if they stupidly followed the example of Mississippi and Alabama et al. In my view, this one policy is what is keeping a lot of the nastier blue states viable.
Also my lived experience.