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> There’s a reason we went from massages and pet daycare to rentier agriculture executive style management of the peons.

And that reason is "service businesses are too expensive in California because of high housing costs".

And the housing costs are high because the rent extraction industry figured it out before the tech industry did

That's right-NIMBYism. California is expensive because of left-NIMBYism in the cities, and pastoralist old people in the suburbs.

(Also because of firefighters. And American urban planners who basically believe their job is to stop any project that anyone ever objects to.)