'Go woke, go broke': Billionaire Chamath
Palihapitiya suggests that Northeast cities
like NYC and Boston are hemorrhaging income
due to political ideology — while the
South keeps booming
Posted By: Dreadnought, 10/23/2023 12:09:45 AM
With a single tweet, Chamath Palihapitiya, the CEO of Social Capital, recently became the provocative main character of the day on X, formerly known as Twitter. Palihapitiya sent out a screenshot of a Bloomberg article based on how six southern states had contributed more to U.S. gross domestic product than the northeast corridor of Washington-New York-Boston for the first time in history. But it was his accompanying caption that sparked hot debate: “Go woke, go broke,” he said, implying that the ongoing culture war and economic policies of northeastern states had facilitated the migration of wealth and economic power to the South. While tweeps weighed in with their own thoughts
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