This article has some interesting things to say, and paints a useful picture of California&#x27;s politics.<p>But, I think one of its flaws is that it lumps Tech and Entertainment&#x2F;Media into the same category. These industries are somewhat different.<p>For example, tech employment can be relatively robust for people in San Francisco and the Valley at the same time as Southern California&#x27;s entertainment production workers are losing their jobs to other US states which offer relatively large tax incentives to production companies and studios.<p>And, I think, as a point of comparison, it&#x27;s interesting that, in recent years, the California legislature handed the entertainment industry a large boost in tax credits for productions it kept in state (as opposed to competitors like Louisiana and Georgia).<p>And that&#x27;s an important difference. I haven&#x27;t seen the legislature giving, say, Yahoo, a special tax holiday if it can just get its act together and stop laying off people. And the state government&#x27;s reaction to Uber has not been particularly friendly either. I see some antagonism to Tech in state and local government. And the Tech industry is still viewed as a monstrously fat tax cow by the government.<p>Still, the article&#x27;s portrait of California as a &quot;bifurcated&quot; economy has some truth. The state contains a huge number of poor and middle class people who do not directly benefit from &quot;Software Valley&#x27;s&quot; jobs machine. (The main thing they receive from it is some government services paid for by taxes on that machine&#x27;s workers.)