These days, parts of California often looks more like a developing country than the world’s fifth most powerful economy. Urban encampments — complete with medieval diseases — have become legendary. The streets of its glittering cities of tech are paved not with gold, but with human waste (but there’s an app for that!).
No longer the Golden State, it is more The Land Of No (no market rent, no plastic straws, no natural gas heating or cooking, no foie gras, no plastic bags, no fur, no teeny bottles of hotel shampoo, (no cheap gasoline, either), no early morning school, no state-funded travel to retrograde locales, no “lunch shaming,” no smoking outside. No this, no that. You name it, California will probably eventually ban it. (Except weed; weed anywhere is just fine.)
