Big Tech Faces Dilemma If Roe Is Overturned
8th May 2022
Right now, tech companies who appreciate the effects Blue state policies have on their businesses and employees are oozing their way around such policies by tranferring activities to Red states with better attitudes toward business and taxes — Austin TX is a blatant beneficiary of this process; a Blue pustule on the rosy Red butt of Texas, proglodytes in Travis county try their best to turn Austin into a little bitty corner of California on the prairie, but are constrained by the sanity of the state as a whole so that their Wokeness can’t get out of hand (Texas taxes aren’t going to jump to California levels, and Texas social policies aren’t going to reach California levels of weird). So they can signal their virtue like fidget-spinners without any danger of having to suffer from the results.
But abortion is the keystone of the Woke edifice, and if that goes away, well, they’re between a rock and a hard place. AWFLs are going to shun Texas, and Wokerati already in Austin will probably decamp precipitously of Texas moves to restrict or ban abortion (as I expect it will). The squeeze will be on, and the Austin (and San Antonio, it’s little sister) economy could quite possibly crash into rubble. This next year will be very interesting.