it's a prerequisite sure I don't disagree. But it's actually funny in how many ways California is mismanaged, from lack of public transport to infrastructure to rent cost and tax burden and silly regulations and still people run there. The human network-effect is insanely substantial.

If you were to do napkin math on which cities have the best internet speeds and the lowest cost of doing business, and the best regulations then probably we'd all have moved to Estonia by now, but people are still more likely to go to Israel, a place in the middle of a warzone.

So for that reason, I find hyping technology up as the great equalizer very cynical. It's mostly still people and culture at the end of the day.