A two -stage CA economy reflects Britain’s past in class

From Dan WaltersCalmness

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Forty years ago, this month, I started a 9,000 miles tour in California, gathering data, conversations and observations on the megarents that chased the state over the next century. The result was a series of 14 parts in Bee Sacramento, later published as a book entitled “New California: Faced in front of 21^Holy CenturyS “

Its common topic was that the massive changes in the economy of the country – transition from production to services and technologies, combined with equally massive cultural and ethnic changes, together with the rapid growth of the population – reshape the future of the state.

I quoted two researchers, Leon Buvier and Philip Martin, who designed the future of California as “the possible emergence of a two -tier economy with Asians and non -Eye -eaters competing for high -status positions, while Spaniards and blacks are struggling to get low -payment jobs.”

Any objective description of 2025 California would conclude that Buvier and Martin, a member of the Faculty of UC-Davis at that time, hit the nails cut.

A A new article in Forbes Magazine from Michael BernikA lawyer, who was the director of the State Department for Employment Development A Fourth Century, compares two -stage California with “Above, down”, “ British television series from the 70s.

The 68-Episode series examines connections between a wealthy family and its servants as a microcosm of socio-economic tendencies affecting the UK in the early 20^th Century.

Bernik notes that the current economic numbers in California are weaker, but behind these data is the more fundamental reality of the “California developing above, the economy on the lower floor: its prosperous professional workers in the college and the economy of knowledge and army of the workers in the economy of the service that serve them.

“This two -tier economy is not new,” Bernik continues. “It has been built in the country in the last two decades – and somehow since the late 1970s. The new is how this economy is so widely accepted for granted in 2025. It has been accepted as a natural order by the upper -floor people who are considered to be champions and protectors of the working class and the poor.”

Those in California’s Mostly White and Asian Overclass, Bernick Writes, “Have Been Increasingly Vocal This Year in Denounce the National Administration. Silent as to the Low Workers Who Attend to Their Daily Needs, and the Inequality That Benefit From. force.

Bernik contrasts with the current California with its more egalitarian and economic mobile version from the middle of the century, but he adds: “There is no way to return to this earlier economic structure of a larger self-sufficient middle class, but there is also no reason to do so.”

Bernik adds: “It is one thing to serve others and the other to serve others in a low-cost position, status and authority. This is a condition in California with its lower-floor workers, the result of state government policies dating back to the 90s, which has a state of state, and the expenses of the state of law and the expenses of the state of law and the expenses of the state of law and the expenses of the state legislation. and costs that have a place for the ability of the state legislation to create a division and costs that have a place for the ability of state legislation to create delicate jobs in order to be able to conclude on the spot on the spot on the spot. An expansive expansion system for benefits.

Bernik concludes that if you respond to the problem of low -salary jobs, “the start is at least to be honest in terms of policy. The policy of equality and rhetoric of the state workforce of the state has little connection with their high degree of law today and how the economy of the state actually works.”

Well said.

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