[ninetyninenine]

All our GDP is in software. We don't know how to make anything except AI and web apps. We wouldn't know what to do with a nuke.

[b112]

Incredibly wrong.

Hollywood is still a thing. Manufacturing, yes manufacturing. Agriculture. The Bay Area is a fraction of that GDP, and a small geographical part of California.

[numpad0]

Something is seriously broken with this world now that completely normal and well educated person like GP is not realizing his words aren't making sense. Apple Park to LLNL is under an hour's drive. You guys can probably achieve nuclear independence in a day if needed.

It just can't be done economically, because yields of a nuke(pun intended) don't immediately map onto economical values. Not just immensely positive or negative, but actually tangential to the currency dimensions.

[grugagag]

Hollywood is becoming irrelevant fast. At least that’s been the trend as of late.

[oblio]

That's transitioning to streaming services which still have studios.

[AlotOfReading]

Agriculture is essentially a rounding error on California's GDP, <$60B or <2%. There are individual companies more economically significant than the entire agricultural industry.

The disproportionate power relative to its economic significance is a political choice.

[cenamus]

In that case, all of Russia GDP is oil and natural gas

[remarkEon]

Which you can turn into energy, TBD if you can do that with a web app.

[Ygg2]

You definitely can turn cryptocurrency into heat. That's thermal energy.

[Ygg2]

It seems my sarcasm was not detected. Maybe I should have said AI.

[rafale]

Ask Nevada.