rant · moment 8 of 20
Tech Wealth vs. Homelessness and the LA Zombie Apocalypse Bit
from Bombing Beirut, Back To Butler & Melania’s Mission | The Tim Dillon Show #491 · #491
8 min
He contrasts California's trillion-dollar tech companies with visible homelessness and fentanyl overdoses, riffing into an extended fictional bit about LA eventually becoming a zombie apocalypse where the state still touts GDP rankings while burning zombie bodies on LAX runways.
- California's economy is now 80% dependent on tech companies, up from 60% in 2018, while film and television production has collapsed.
- Tech companies employ far fewer people than legacy manufacturers like General Motors, and AI is eliminating jobs even as these firms dominate the economy.
- The state's highways have people bleeding and in altered mental states—this is what happens when the entire economy is run by a handful of trillion-dollar tech firms.
- Tim lays out what you'd expect from the world's fourth-largest economy: it should be clean, safe, productive, and have taken care of vulnerable people.
- Instead, LA visitors find homelessness, fentanyl overdoses at Whole Foods, and seizures at bus stops despite being in a massively wealthy economy.
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, the world's 10th richest person, tells people to move to California because the weather is great, ignoring the collapse around them.
- Tim questions why people are dying in the street in the fourth most productive economy in the world, a reality everyone across the political spectrum can see.
- Talk to anyone actually living in LA—a waiter, waitress, former cameraman, or set designer—and none of them feel like they're part of the world's fourth-largest economy.
CaliforniaGavin NewsomLos AngelesOpenAIAlphabetNvidiaBroadcomJensen HuangMetaApple