r/MURICA • u/Thick_Acanthisitta31 • 10d ago

Everything is bigger in Texas

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u/MacAttack0711 10d ago

Five states in the USA exceed $1T in GDP which is absolutely wild when you think about it, especially considering that those five states (CA, FL, IL, TX, NY) total “only” about 110m people in population.

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u/Harambiz 10d ago

That’s almost the 5 largest states by population. Pennsylvania has about 200,000 more people than Illinois, and just beats it out to number 5.

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u/armeg 9d ago

Yeah but at least we don’t throw D cell batteries at our mascot

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u/iPoopAtChu 9d ago

We throw batteries at Santa get your facts right.

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u/Artsy-in-Partsy 9d ago

Do you think Santa is our mascot?

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u/Thick_Acanthisitta31 10d ago

Thats a wild fact. Thanks for the info

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u/Lv_InSaNe_vL 10d ago

California by itself is the 4th largest economy in the world. Only being beaten by the United States (duh), China, and Germany.

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u/Skipp_To_My_Lou 9d ago

But isn't most of that because of a few huge corporations like Nvidia & Disney? What's the statistic, 10% of the world's largest companies are from California?

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u/Upnorth4 9d ago

California also has the most small businesses and small manufacturers of any state. A lot of people live here, and someone locally has to package, blend, design, market all the food.

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u/RainbowCrown71 9d ago

GDP isn’t calculated based on headquarters though. It’s based on the site of production.

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u/aj68s 9d ago

Yes, and no. It's has the largest and most valuable agriculture output of any other state. It's tourism industry is second only to Florida, and it is one of the top 5 energy producing states. Also, #1 in manufacturing in the country.

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u/exradical 8d ago

I mean that’s true for most countries as well. Samsung makes up about 15% of South Koreas market cap for example

There is no market cap data available for individual states, just countries, but considering the “big 5” tech companies are ALL headquartered in California, it’s hard to imagine any of them make up 15% of the total market

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u/Remote_Clue_4272 8d ago

“But isn’t it because…. “Yeah buddy it is, because that’s what their consistent business friendly climate has delivered to the state.

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u/WoWhAolic 7d ago

It's the same for Texas, Tech companies make it their home as a tax haven. Among other companies.

CA does a lot of industry, agricultural, manufacturing, financial, and tech. It's finances flow down to the common person better than in Texas as well in my experiences in the two states.

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u/Fissminister 9d ago

Well, I wouldn't think it was that surprising. Most of the US is using state of the art tools for most things. In addition to the shareholders milking the average worker for everything he is worth.

If anyone was gonna have a high GPD despite their lack of population, it was gonna be the US States.

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u/awt1990 10d ago

And it’s not even the highest GDP state

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u/thinkB4WeSpeak 10d ago

Texas is about to get a stock market as well

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u/ravens52 10d ago

Wdym? Like, they’re building an actual stock exchange or business area somewhere?

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u/Asphodelmercenary 10d ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Stock_Exchange

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u/[deleted] 10d ago

Kind of like the stock exchange of Chicago, which you don't hear much about anymore.

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u/jmconrad 10d ago

The CME is the largest futures exchange in the United States and the second largest exchange in the world for the trading of futures and options. I think they’re doing okay.

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u/zzTopG 10d ago

Hey bro, didn’t you hear people don’t talk about it? Clearly unimportant /s

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u/jmconrad 9d ago

My bad. Texas bad! Capitalism baddd!

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u/joeyx22lm 10d ago

You hear about Chicago if you're a derivatives trader, CME.

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u/DHiL 9d ago

Lmao what?

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u/Zingzing_Jr 10d ago

It'll be bigger though, cause TEXAS

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u/[deleted] 10d ago

No not really. Texas wants to be California, but the conditions that made California the economic power house it is, don't exist in Texas. Plus, their climate sucks.

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u/Zingzing_Jr 10d ago

But everything is bigger in Texas....

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u/Hetnikik 10d ago edited 10d ago

Except they're second place state size (beaten by Alaska) and second place population (beaten by California)

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u/Zingzing_Jr 10d ago

Did I stutter?

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u/UnfoundedWings4 10d ago

Their farms a little

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u/Blog_Pope 9d ago

Including the power outages.

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u/KosherTriangle 10d ago

Tbf with climate change even Californias weather is no longer as good as it used to be… wildfires and heatwaves all the time now.

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u/Lubedballoon 10d ago

They should build an electrical grid that works when it’s cold first

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u/jsmith47944 10d ago

LOL sick burn dude. It's crazy we build infrastructure typical in areas that are traditional in dry and heat to operate dry and heat environments not arctic conditions right?

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u/Lubedballoon 10d ago

And it’s crazy that sometimes they experience those conditions too, right? Not everything has to be one or the other. You can build preventatively to ya know. It’ll cost money up front duh, but it’ll be cheaper than everything going down.

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u/jsmith47944 10d ago

Companies aren't going to spend billions on infrastructure that isn't a trend historically.

I went down there to help recovery on wind turbines for example. There's thousands of turbines down there that have tropical packages. Manufacturers offer arctic packages that have a lot more heaters, different oils, grease, etc but place like Texas, NM, AZ etc aren't going to spend more money on something they don't forecast needing 99.99 percent of the tome.

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u/Lubedballoon 10d ago

Ok well, according to ChatGPT, that one time cost between 80-130 billion to unfuck. And again according to chat, it would cost Texas around 20 billion over a few years to winterize their shit. Fuck it I guess.

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u/ThreeLeggedChimp 10d ago

Do you literally not have a life?

Your post history is all of this political bullshit.

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u/KaraCreates 10d ago

Yeah I don't think that was political. What about that was political?

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u/Serious_Swan_2371 10d ago

They already had Enron

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u/KHWD_av8r 10d ago

Don’t look up California’s GDP.

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u/Thick_Acanthisitta31 10d ago

I did. The only countries with a higher GDP are China, Germany, and Japan

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u/doge1039 10d ago

It actually just recently surpassed Japan, so only Germany and China(not including the US as a whole)

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u/Thick_Acanthisitta31 10d ago

Thats a fun little fact

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u/Upnorth4 9d ago

Here's another fun GDP fact: San Francisco CSA and Los Angeles CSA together, which is about $2.2 trillion, has 90% of Texas' total GDP

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u/Ok-Blackberry-3534 10d ago

I think India is higher than Japan, although it probably depends on how you measure raw GDP.

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u/durant_burner 10d ago

That’s interesting, what do you mean by how you measure raw gdp?

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u/Ok-Blackberry-3534 10d ago

Well you can measure the total value of goods and services produced; the income of everyone in the country; or what everyone spends. You'll get different sums.

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u/Effective_Educator_9 8d ago

Who uses that stat?

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u/Ordinary-Rain-6897 8d ago

people who want to lie about GDP.

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u/marino1310 10d ago

Why not use them? The map would have been even more impressive

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u/Old_Bird4748 10d ago

Californias GDP is 4.1 trillion. It's almost twice that of Texas.

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u/NotDanKenz 10d ago

Is 50% more almost twice in your opinion?

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u/cute_poop6 10d ago

2.7x2= about 4

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u/Neither-Phone-7264 9d ago

dont tell bro what .5x2 equals

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u/peepee_poopoo_fetish 9d ago

2.7x1.5 = 4. So it's 50% more

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u/Commercial-Hour-2417 10d ago

I've been assured by Fox News for the past decades that Democrats have turned California into a communist hellhole. A literal failed state. But who'd a thunk Fox News would LIE to me?!

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u/whineybubbles 8d ago

Why? You could just create your own meme about California

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u/NegativeSir3323 10d ago

can a texan (or anyone knowledgeable) explain to me what's propping up their economy? I know california's rich because it has silicon valley and L.A as huge economic powerhouses. is it the oil? NASA? dude perfect?

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u/Scamandrius 10d ago

1/3rd of America's oil reserves, around 40% of its oil production, business-friendly laws, high immigration both international and interstate, high birthrate, big real-estate market with lots of development going on all the time, large financial sector in Dallas (From what I hear they're opening a stock exchange up there). Not really one big thing contributing to it like Cali, just a mish-mash.

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u/TheObstruction 10d ago

Be interested in hearing which of the many big things you think are the one big thing in CA.

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u/YungMushrooms 10d ago

1/3 of America’s tech startups and innovation hubs, around 40% of its venture capital, strict labor and consumer protection laws, high immigration both international and interstate, high birthrate, big real-estate market with lots of development going on all the time, major infrastructure projects like high-speed rail or the Sites Reservoir in the works. Not really one big thing contributing to it like Texas, just a mish-mash.

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u/masonic-youth 9d ago edited 9d ago

Lol what's the one big thing in California?

Manufacturing? Agriculture? Entertainment? Silicon Valley? Energy production?

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u/marino1310 10d ago

California is big because of the massive shipping industry that comes through there as well as the massive agricultural industry they have. Silicon Valley isn’t the only thing they have going for them.

Texas is somewhat similar, they have a booming tech field and lots of engineering R&D companies, as well as their space industry. I believe they also have some shipping booms as well since some ships go through Texas to get central faster so that probably makes up quite a bit.

Most huge economies in the US (really most countries) will exist on the coast and makes up a bulk of their economy with trade thanks to the ports

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u/masonic-youth 9d ago

California #1 in US in manufacturing, agriculture, Fortune 500 companies, new businesses, tech and VC investments, and public higher education. And tourism doesn't hurt either.

Texas has oil and loose regulations.

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u/Upnorth4 9d ago

California has lots of local manufacturing shops. Think about all the things that go into making a bag of lettuce, you need a warehouse to store it, cardboard boxes to put the lettuce in, plastic wrap to wrap the pallet, pallets, truck drivers to deliver the palletized lettuce. You also need research and development people that design the lettuce blends and flavors. All of that is locally available in California

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u/Shatalroundja 9d ago

Military contracts.

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u/battleofflowers 10d ago

Texas will surpass France in five years.

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u/Thick_Acanthisitta31 9d ago

I really dont understand all the hate toward others in the comments. Its just a post on reddit

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u/SnowBound078 9d ago

Some use Reddit as an outlet to vent all their anger and hate, some do the opposite, I use it to look at Memes, Fan Art, Corgis, Pigs, and to occasionally talk shit about Communism.

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u/Thick_Acanthisitta31 9d ago

I also like memes, corgis, and shiting on communism. Wanna be friends?

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u/SnowBound078 9d ago

Let me check my schedule………………………………………………………………………….……….……………………………………..yes

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u/Thick_Acanthisitta31 9d ago

WANNA GO IN THE GARAGE AND SWING KATANAS AT WATERMELONS?!

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u/SnowBound078 9d ago

That sounds super dangerous…………..and fun.

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u/Thick_Acanthisitta31 9d ago

You can show me sick fan art and teach me about pigs. Ill show you wildly dangerous things you would brag about at parties

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u/SnowBound078 9d ago

The most dangerous thing I’ve done was run into traffic to pick up a bag of Horse Feed that had fallen out of someone’s trunk, it was right when school let out, so traffic was high

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u/SnowBound078 9d ago

Granted I’m from Texas, doing dangerous and stupid shit from time to time is how we pass the time.

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u/Thick_Acanthisitta31 9d ago

Arkansas. 2 hours from Texas

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u/Thick_Acanthisitta31 9d ago

Im going to put 5lbs of tanerite in a washer, and ima let you shoot it about 150 yards away with an AR15 so it blows up.

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u/SnowBound078 9d ago

I’ve got an AR -15 and 8lbs of Tannerite, we sell it at the feed store I work at so I get it 15% off

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u/DannyBones00 10d ago

Remember back in like 2009, when the recession hit, when all the anti-American folks talked about how imminent it was that China would overtake the US? That we were falling behind?

Obviously we have our issues, but I don’t think we’re going anywhere as a global power anytime soon.

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u/SonOfLuigi 9d ago

We 100% go back to back on country of the century, bro

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u/Either-Medicine9217 10d ago

If it wasn't for the climate and the fact I love my home state, I'd consider moving to Texas.

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u/Scamandrius 10d ago

I love Texas but yeah the heat is just the worst.

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u/Lord_Fblthp 10d ago

It can get pretty damn cold up in the panhandle.

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u/GC0125 9d ago

Even in North Texas it regularly hits the high teens in the winter. Two extremes for sure

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u/Substantial-Plane870 9d ago

I figure the only things I’ll miss when I move out of Texas is the BBQ, Tex-Mex, and HEB. Everything else is subpar comparatively, if that.

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u/WoWhAolic 7d ago

The BBQ was goated in Texas, hell SE to South Central US is goated for BBQ of various types. I also miss the boils.

Could leave the rest of it forever though.

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u/ThreeLeggedChimp 10d ago

What, you don't like a mix of desert and tropical swamp?

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u/Thick_Acanthisitta31 10d ago

Only thing holding me back is the property tax

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u/Low-Car-6331 10d ago

Just remember there is no income tax in Texas counter weigh that high property tax, so depending on how much you make that is either more in taxes or less.

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u/Clynelish1 9d ago

Buy a reasonable property relative to your income and you're probably way ahead.

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u/TheObstruction 10d ago

If it wasn't for the fascists, I'd consider moving to Texas. I'd choose to not do so regardless, but I'd be willing to consider it.

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u/RedRaiderSkater 10d ago

I currently live in Texas. Moving tomorrow. Don't come to this shit hole of a state.

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u/OrneryError1 10d ago

The heat is terrible, but not even high on the list for why Texas sucks (as someone who lived in Texas):

• expensive ass electricity bill because the whole electricity grid is a scam

• highways are unbelievably dangerous to drive on

• almost no public lands in the state

• gerrymandered AF

• trash EVERYWHERE

• infrastructure overall shoddy

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u/AdjustedTitan1 9d ago

Kinda wrong on all accounts here. Especially the public lands part. We have a shit ton of STATE Parks just not national ones

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u/Clynelish1 9d ago

Eh, over 95% of Texas is privately owned. The state parks are big (and cool), but the state is huge and most is not accessible to the public.

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u/Substantial-Plane870 9d ago

The quality of life is bad, the violent crime rate is above the national average, and the schools suck too. These are inconvenient facts people don’t like to talk about.

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u/Steve-Whitney 10d ago

Something something oil?

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u/Shatalroundja 9d ago

Also military industrial complex. It’s not just capitalism in Texas. Unlike California with a bigger GDP and also exports more intellectual property which is the US’s number one export. Our economy would do fine if not better without Texas, but we would be screwed without California.

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u/Unable-Difference-55 10d ago

Why the fuck is Alaska red?

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u/Thick_Acanthisitta31 10d ago

Their GDP is lower then that of Texas. Nothing more.

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u/Unable-Difference-55 10d ago

We're part of the US, not a our own country. So again, why the fuck is Alaska red?

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u/Thick_Acanthisitta31 10d ago

Valid point and great question. I have no idea honestly

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u/Thick_Acanthisitta31 10d ago

The GDP of Alaska is 70 billion, Texas is 2.7 Trillion

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u/Different_Reward_130 9d ago

God Bless America! Land of the Free and Home of the Brave!

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u/omn1p073n7 9d ago

Apparently on this map Putin took Alaska back

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u/mohman87 8d ago

Yet Texas still takes money from the federal government like the welfare state they are. About $70billion. Guess all that success is not translating to the people of Texas. Great job. Yall made the rich richer while you are all poor.

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u/UmpireDear5415 8d ago

yee to the mothafuckinhaw!

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u/stag1013 10d ago

It always bugs me to not have Canada make the list. For a while we were doing better than the US, and even if that came to an end, we should have stayed competitive. If we didn't have a decade of lost economic growth, we would be on that short list. Sigh

(Would still be smaller than California, though, because holy cow)

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u/ThreeLeggedChimp 10d ago

What do you mean decade?

Canada's government has been failing you for decades.

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u/[deleted] 10d ago

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u/stag1013 9d ago

I think you're the only person in all the replies with a brain, Holy cow. Those disagreeing with me just keep saying non-sequitors (yeah, quality of life is more important, but that would also be higher with more money), and those agreeing with me are trying to argue Canada's economy has always been this weak, which is patently false

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

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u/stag1013 9d ago

Our economic woes revive around bad economic policies, ordinarily. We can recover in a decade if we set ourselves to it (main reason it'll take a decade is that a good chunk of the problem is that we've had no major infrastructure in over a decade because of fake environmental concerns). I think we can recover, yes, but it'll take a change in government.

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u/ThreeLeggedChimp 10d ago

Yeah, but that's been decades in the making.

Canada's early aerospace and electronics sector was really promising, until the government killed it in the cradle.

That's what led to their brain drain over the past few decades, and resulted in their current situation.

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u/stag1013 9d ago

The weak electronics sector is not the reason for Canada's non-existent growth. At most it's a minor factor

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u/OkShoulder2 10d ago

Now do California

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u/hamknuckle 10d ago

TIL Alaska isn’t part of the states…

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u/Extension_Wafer_7615 9d ago

Let's check GDP per capita now.

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u/Odoaiden 9d ago

Where countries like Luxembourg are top 10

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u/Ok_Chemist6567 9d ago

Ain’t no California

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u/albny89 10d ago

Everything’s bigger in Texas, including the idiots.

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u/hornybrisket 10d ago

Texas is still a country, remember that.

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u/centurion762 9d ago

Posts like this always remind me that our states are basically separate countries under a super-government.

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u/Mist3rbl0nd3 10d ago

Just here for all the California apologists that need to regurgitate what we all already know.

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u/masonic-youth 10d ago

Now do that with California, the fourth largest economy in the world

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u/FirestormBC 10d ago

Why would you use Texas and not California?

California’s GDP is billions larger

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u/Thick_Acanthisitta31 10d ago

A trillion, actually. Also, I didn't see it until after posting this

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u/Adventurous_Touch342 10d ago

TBH huge part of Texas economy are fossil fuels and military production, with Europe slowly investing in their own military industry and world slowly going nuclear and renewable in terms of energy I wonder how long it will stay this way.

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u/Status_Eye1245 10d ago

Surprised Texas beat out South Korea. Though they would’ve been higher

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u/Randolpho 10d ago

And that's not even the kicker!

The kicker is that California has nearly twice the GDP of Texas.

That's fuckin' /r/MURICA, right there!

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u/These-Barnaclez 10d ago

California bout to cash in like Mr Money in the Bank

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u/HidingInRoom 9d ago

Should have used California instead. 4.1 Trillion

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u/prowrestlingrulz 9d ago

now do this with poverty per 100k

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u/Jay_money-sniper 9d ago

They should do this for the poorest state as well so the ‘murica folks can visualize their inequality

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u/IanRevived94J 9d ago

The fact that only three countries in Europe have GDP’s greater than Texas is kind of scary.

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u/Aggressive_Fan_449 9d ago

We really aught to cherish the US government for containing these fucks. Idk if people really understand just how quickly Texas would be at war with the world if it wasn’t beholden to a federal government

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u/Stressmess77 9d ago

Yeah but how does selling off natural resources (putting oil on tankers) really improve life for the average Texan? GDP isn’t a measure of quality of life.

Human Development Index approximates quality of life or at least potential for same. Texas HDI is 91. The average in U.S. is 94!! That puts Texas in 35th place!! Congratulations Texas!

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u/caprazzi 9d ago

Now do California lol

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u/AnanasAnfasser 9d ago

How much do you get from all that GDP? Quality of life is so much more then a couple of big tech companies that don't even pay taxes.

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u/turboninja3011 9d ago

France, UK and Japan aren’t for long in this list.

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u/Kvedulf_Odinson 9d ago

7 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Yeah Texas could NEVER survive on its own without America. (Please read with sarcasm filter on)

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u/zachk3446 9d ago

Let’s overtake France next. Fuck France. #FreedomFries

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u/Tricky-Wedding-3094 9d ago

Now do BMI for the citizens

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u/Thick_Acanthisitta31 9d ago

Tell me about chemtrails

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u/Effective_Educator_9 8d ago

The State of California provides tax revenue to the Federal government that exceeds any money it receives by $81m.

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u/DecentlyFatBear 8d ago

And yet they can’t house the homeless

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u/Thick_Acanthisitta31 8d ago

Neither can Cali, New York, or Illinois

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u/shamwowj 8d ago

You forgot California

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u/shamwowj 8d ago

Except GDP. California’s is 1.4T higher than Texas’.

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u/Thick_Acanthisitta31 8d ago

Read the comments

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u/The-zKR0N0S 8d ago

Now do it for California

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u/Thick_Acanthisitta31 8d ago

Read the comments

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u/Ok-Pride-3534 8d ago

Honestly, I'm not sure the US has a bigger GDP than Texas.

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u/Hey648934 8d ago

Now take Oil out of the equation…

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u/Mk1fish 8d ago

Alaska is a country now!

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u/tokyo_sexwail 7d ago

Why is Alaska red when all the other states are blue?

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u/Thick_Acanthisitta31 7d ago

Tbh, couldn't tell ya. My guess, an error

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u/[deleted] 10d ago edited 10d ago

Compare that to California now, which is almost double the GDP of Texas.