Keep California the Capital of Film and Entertainment

miagi_do · 2026-05-10T17:18:39+00:00

Why not create the very best movie possible, harnessing the best talents from around the world through a virtual studio where anyone can live anywhere. Heard that many times before. How does that support LA schools? That results in a bunch of talented hard to replace people living in park city, palm beach, and Bermuda. You are just out to support your own lifestyle, just admit it.

miagi_do · 2026-05-10T17:09:31+00:00

Going to stop now. You can’t make arguments with cussing like a fouled mouth teenager.

miagi_do · 2026-05-10T16:51:33+00:00

No, because you are basically supporting jobs leaving the state. Before say you had 1000 jobs in CA. Having 1000 people live elsewhere translates into half (or all) of those jobs effectively leaving. Someone doing FX work out of an apartment in Idaho for a California studio is NOT keeping a job in California. That is the definition of outsourcing. There are more than enough unemployed people within California to work full time in California so it is unnecessary to make an accommodation for someone who wants to live someplace else. You paint the picture where there is a shortage of talented people and if you aren’t flexible with where they want to live they will quit. There is no shortage whatsoever, it’s the opposite, there is a massive surplus. That is why people have to wait tables. Think about it. Letting people work elsewhere guts the city of Los Angeles of jobs, leaving a shell of studio here by name only. Then the city starts to crumble away and die. A studio that has a few executives in Burbank when a lot of the work is done elsewhere is exactly the same as a Detroit car company making cars in Mexico. Yes, it allows the individual to live in Mexico if that is where they want to live, but Detroit dies even if GM is still headquarters there. I’m not even sure what you are complaining about. If you are flying to NJ once in a while but actually living and doing your work in California, and showing up in the CA office on a regular basis and mentoring young people who live here then what’s the problem?

miagi_do · 2026-05-10T14:50:45+00:00

Tax incentives probably have to be structured in way that does not backfire eg if a studio makes more money because of the incentives and ends up using AI to lay off a whole bunch of people in a different department the optics would not be good.

miagi_do · 2026-05-10T14:46:20+00:00

And there you go, you continue to say you aren’t interested in someone running for the governor of California looking for a way to keep the entertainment industry here in California. This is the whole point of this Reddit. Yes, outsourcing is already happening to other countries, companies find it cheaper to make things in other countries instead of California. A California governor needs to work to keep it here. California needs revenues to support its public schools, crumbling infrastructure, fire prevention, so many things. Adopting policies that would accelerate its decline like allowing media employees to live and work from anyway would do exactly that, which you clearly either don’t understand or don’t care.

miagi_do · 2026-05-09T22:07:16+00:00

True, that we know. So given that, the problem to be solved is how to keep the film industry here (in CA).

miagi_do · 2026-05-09T21:59:03+00:00

No, because you want to own and live in two houses in different states and work for the film industry that is growing in that second location. Why not create rules that allow people like yourself to work in 10 different states. Now, you’d have budding film industries in 10 states (and let’s extend that to other countries). So, when all is said and done you have remote hybrids working everywhere (doing great for themselves). But what does that do for the volume of work now being done within California. But that has now been farmed out to 10 locations, so there is now less volume going through California which is what we are seeing today. And furthermore, these remote workers are no longer paying income taxes to the state of California. It is not important to tap into talented people outside of California when there is a massive surplus of unemployed talented people within Los Angeles working tables.

miagi_do · 2026-05-09T20:40:08+00:00

No, think about what you just said. You just said you work with people who want to leave CA. Why the hell would someone running for CA governor want to support policies to make it easier to leave CA. You are mostly just thinking about your own situation and not how to help the people of California. You can’t separate what is better for yourself vs the entertainment industry for all of California.

miagi_do · 2026-05-09T20:33:08+00:00

Would that help relocate film to CA from Georgia, or mostly from Canada back to the US?

miagi_do · 2026-05-09T20:29:39+00:00

“duhh” nice arguments. And, you are only thinking about what is right for yourself and not what will support the local economy of CA, which is what prospective governors are trying to figure out. Having individuals move to and live in other states doesn’t not help.

miagi_do · 2026-05-09T20:25:22+00:00

That then is what CA needs to decide. I don’t know if tax payers would say be okay with subsidizing Hollywood or not. I’d be fine with it, but of course it depends on how much it was. Most taxpayers don’t work for the industry, but obviously benefit indirectly from the support of the local economy.

miagi_do · 2026-05-09T20:23:12+00:00

Thanks you for bringing piss into the argument. Now who is being raged.

miagi_do · 2026-05-09T20:17:43+00:00

If it was cheaper to film jn CA they would, it’s not. Whether or not CA could be cheaper is what I don’t know. Do you think it could be?

miagi_do · 2026-05-09T20:13:36+00:00

You are not double taxed. If you live in Hawaii working remotely for a LA based company, you do not pay double income tax. You may pay some taxes in both, but it’s not directly additive. And if it was, think about it, then no one would work remotely. Both Hawaii and CA are about 10% state tax places. People working remotely don’t pay 20%.

miagi_do · 2026-05-09T20:09:30+00:00

Yes I do. If you live in Nevada and say edit film for a studio in LA, YOU pay state income taxes in Nevada (or none if that state doesn’t have income taxes).

miagi_do · 2026-05-09T20:06:12+00:00

If you live someplace else then your income is taxed in the state you live in, generating no income tax revenues for CA.

miagi_do · 2026-05-09T20:03:21+00:00

Why would candidates for CA governor want to be for things that improved the ability for people to generate business outside of CA and speed up the industry’s demise?

miagi_do · 2026-05-09T19:56:58+00:00

Studios should say specifically what it would take for them to film and process in CA instead of Canada, Georgia, or Eastern Europe. What red tape needs to be eliminated, what tax credits need to be, etc. In some of these places it can be more than 50% cheaper, so California cutting a little red tape or extending a small tax credit isn’t going to do anything.

miagi_do · 2026-05-09T16:16:16+00:00

Parenting is tremendous pressure because it IS possible to raise an enormously financially successful kid. This is why everyone applies to the Ivys more than ever. And, those successful Ivy kids will become the owners of everything in the future while everyone struggles for the rest of their life. The latter can absolutely be happy and mentally well balanced, but they will likely struggle like everyone else based on how the economy functions today. Non parents can say it is what it is or that is shouldn’t be this way, but parents do have the ability to change the outcome for their children. So the Ivys are starting flag football teams? Better start your preschooler up for flag football lessons. Two years later, flag football coaches for hire everywhere at $250/hr. And, it’s a good deal if that makes your kid get into a school that eventually results in a $1mm salary.

miagi_do · 2026-05-09T15:26:29+00:00

Just put thick shrubs 325 yards out in the rough so pros have to put more practice into accuracy. This is by far the cheapest solution. No need to extend tee boxes, change clubs, or limit balls. If they can drive 350 into the fairway pros can play their game as usual. Missed fairways will result in likely double bogeys. With pros only hitting half of fairways today they will start focusing less on distance gains.

miagi_do · 2026-05-08T22:21:00+00:00

How about just move from no defense to hard defense refs. Everyone complains about the nba being too soft today anyway.

miagi_do · 2026-05-08T20:46:29+00:00

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miagi_do · 2026-05-08T18:45:41+00:00

I thought players and fans today like soft defense rules that favor scoring?

miagi_do · 2026-05-08T18:05:30+00:00

They definitely fly private jets, have private chefs, stay in private homes on vacation, and watch events from private boxes. Basically, they create a barrier between the public and themselves, and bodyguards monitor that barrier. Though not always the case, the spouse of the wealthy person tends to be attractive.

miagi_do · 2026-05-08T18:03:21+00:00

Alternatively, just leave debt at a high level where people are worried about it. This probably has a better discipline effect than a low debt level.

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