Florida has an economy built on rebuilding from hurricances and floods, fraud of all kinds, retirees, and tourism. Led by a corrupt governor, it’s a deregulated mess and falling down, fast. Conservative media that ballyhooed Miami as “Silicon Valley South” is media hype as the one and only large VC firm with offices in Miami pulls out after two years of non-action as the dream of a Miami tech hub is dead.
In the land that time forgot, led by a regressive, corrupt mafioso, DeSantis, once again Florida is #1 in healthcare fraud. South Florida is where medical equipment scams involving knee and back braces continue to flourish alongside more sophisticated billing schemes in the expanding field of telemedicine and genetic cancer testing. Florida is #2 in consumer fraud. The “Scumshine State” with so many people leaving the state, has exported it’s fraud to neighboring Georgia, which is now #1 in fraud with Florida at #2. Credit card fraud, guess who’s #1. Elder fraud, Florida got’s you covered. Corporate Ponzi schemes, Florida’s the place. Anything goes in Ron DeSantis’ deregulated Florida. Illicit drug money flows into the state, where money is often laundered in condos that will eventually collapse into the ocean. Drug money and money laundering makes for big buildings that obscure the views of the ocean, but the flooding running into you condo makes you realize that it’s there. As Florida floods, the raw sewage flows into whats left of people’s homes. The sewage is everywhere. And in Florida, they just keep building in flood prone areas. Florida is the land where climate science is ignored by the Republican-led government, but felt by the people. Oil tycoon money rules in Florida. I could go on, but you get the idea.
And Florida’s tech scene, the little that is present, is crashing. Why? There is a lack of talent and the elite universities that train talent, such as found in California, for instance at UC Berkeley, New York, and Massachusetts. Florida’s colleges are second rate and falling fast. VC funding in Florida is crashing. Right wing idiots like DeSantis are ruining the state’s college system. New College is fully destroyed. Others are crumbling. The state is dumbing down. The new curriculum in Florida is White Nationalism. Florida, especially Miami, is the land of tech fraud, biotech fraud, physician biotech fraud, and especially crypto fraud, along with nearby Bahamas, the home of FTX. Florida’s tech scene is a joke.
If your moving to Florida for it’s tech scene, move for the hurricanes and stay for the fraud – you’ll find little else. Like the state itself, the coral reefs in Florida are 90% destroyed. And….don’t forget your wading boots, because the cities are frequently underwater.
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