I Wish It Weren't True

But I'm afraid it is.

Have you noticed that wherever what Walter Russell Mead calls the “blue state model” is applied, you get a crust of really rich people, jobs for some folks who service them, and then not much employment or opportunity for younger people?

The only way to "get ahead" in Los Angeles is to REALLY get ahead. By this I mean, people do not end up succeeding by just sticking their nose to the grindstone. So you get 10% or so reaching this and rest lagging way behind. Eventually, it'll turn into an hourglass economy as described in the Post article.