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Texas is one of the fasting growing states in the union, so the idiots running things must be doing something right.
by programmarchy 4y ago
Texas is one of the fasting growing states in the union, so the idiots running things must be doing something right.
- Spooky23 4y agoYes, making money for their patrons. Texas is blessed with many things.
- rnk 4y agoLow taxes and flat planes of land that you can keep building new housing on, cheap, that makes it easy to keep growing out. Good for them I guess. But providing infrastructure for that expansion does cost something eventually, thus the struggles with increasing electricity in a state with less oversight. I find your comment pretty generic that could be applied to almost anything. California must be doing something right, because their tax surpluses are incredible. Same for lots of other states. So what, just because California has huge budget surpluses doesn't clarify if the state is serving its citizen's needs.
- programmarchy 4y agoAh right, must be the topology. Brilliant insight. Wake me up once people start voting for California with their feet again.
- salt-thrower 4y agoThis reads like you only read the first half-sentence of that comment and stopped there. Your reductive reasoning is palpable. People will move to Texas in the near term for the promise of low COL, but I wonder how many massive power grid failures it will take for the rich to begin fleeing for greener pastures.
- Spooky23 4y agoThe same things were said of California! When my dads family grew up in the 1950s, the allure of buying a cheap bungalow in a lemon farm outside LA felt like paradise…
- nathanaldensr 4y agoI moved out of Texas long ago precisely because the geography sucks and it's too hot.
- ceejayoz 4y agoPablo Escobar's business grew fast, too. It had (ahem) some externalities, and wound up collapsing. Fast growth isn't inherently a sign of something being done right, or we'd be talking about Zynga a lot more.
- mrguyorama 4y agoUnfortunately, plenty of horrid people DID talk about Zynga a lot.
- ceejayoz 4y agoYes; the point is that "this is popular now" is not necessarily an indicator of quality or long-term sustainability.
- freemint 4y agoA tragedy of the commons is preceded by a gold rush before the predictable tragedy strikes.