“Since the beginning of COVID, California has added a sum total of only 6k jobs in the tech industry, compared to roughly 570k across the rest of the United States.”
Since August 2022 California lost 21k jobs in computer systems design, 15k in streaming and social, and 11k in software publishing. The San Francisco metro alone shed 16,100 information jobs in a year, the worst drop since the dot-com bust. Texas built half a million more homes than California since the pandemic, and metro Austin built 100k more than the entire Bay Area. California homeowners protected their property values and exported the jobs to do it.