Morality Games
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That "infrastructure" is leaving CA like its cool thanks to failed liberal policies-going to places like Canada and Texas.
... infrastructure doesn't leave, personnel and investments leave.
You can't change geography. California has an entire coastline that faces out to the Pacific. Once America completed its economic expansion to the West, we began our economic expansion to East Asia, because our consumerist economy depends on limitless expansion.
It's true that made it easy for the state to take liberties with the businesses that resided there which has driven a modest exodus to neighboring states, but the things that make California special are in the bones of the land. You can't permanently erase the economic value of that until the resources have been depleted and the economic relationships dissolved.
Half of the things that make Texas special will become less relevant in 50-100 years, but California will still be important in several centuries.
Specifically:
Reduction in the importance of oil refineries
Reduction in the importance animal husbandry (supermassive domestic and global population growth will challenge the biological feasibility of devoting so many of our crops to keeping red meat alive and growing)
Climate change affecting the southern half of the United States
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