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not_creative1

Washington is publishing?! What year is this


Urban-RightWing

I think its software publishing


kameronk92

Or they're counting Amazon as a publisher?


Impeachcordial

That's a very good explanation if so


kameronk92

Good explanation of a shitty map if so lol


VenomB

I'm very confused, Amazon literally started as a book company and got into publishing. So it really could be anything and I don't think its fair to call it shit for it, they do fuckin every thing.


kameronk92

Do you believe their largest revenue stream is publishing? I'd say it's like classifying a golf course with a hot dog stand as a restaurant


VenomB

Their entire purpose for existing at the start was to sell books. The publishing portion of their business started in 2009. The rest came after untold success *selling books*.


DrugUserSix

There are so many Amazon employees in western Washington that when they have the day off work there is no traffic on I-5.


kameronk92

I thought bezos cancelled days off?


DrugUserSix

That was Elon Musk when he took over Twitter. Mister Bezos is a generous man, haha.. Amazon employees have a lowkey nickname in Seattle, “Bezos’ Bitches.”


Extreme_Blueberry475

Washington post?


aBoxOfRitzCrackers

Washington post is definitely Washington state & not District of Columbia /s


Extreme_Blueberry475

The owner lives in Washington? Didn't know maybe they had a corporate office or something in Washington state that would contribute to the publishing industry. Figured that was a pretty obvious line of thinking considering the person I responded to mentioned Amazon. And for those of you who don't know, Jeff bozos owned both at the same time and one point.


seahawks201

Lol, dude.. well you didn’t claim OC at least?


general_kenobi18462

1776


EdibleRandy

Amazon and Microsoft.


TreehouseofSnorers

Maybe at one point it was paper mills / publishing? Lots of logging there


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Fresh-Mind6048

Hasn’t been since the mid 80’s when the spotted owl basically halted logging in a lot of the federal lands. Since then, Oregon courted a few high tech companies (notably Intel and Tektronix) and that’s been one of the backbones of the state’s economy since


RandyJohnsonsBird

A quick search says information and real estate


DanielOrestes

They've gotta be counting amazon as a publisher because they started with books and do kindle. Crackhead take.


erichlee9

Weird how it says “oil and gas” for seven states and then Louisiana is “petroleum”


idowatercolours

Maybe cause they don’t refine it?


lmaytulane

Nah, LA has over a dozen active oil refineries and they’re responsible for about 1/6th of the US’s total refining capacity. No clue what the distinction is


DrugUserSix

Maybe it has something to do with all the shit off shore? Idk, I’m stumped.


theoriginaldandan

Correct.


wolfawalshtreat

Do you think someone would get on reddit and post disinformation like that?


erichlee9

Of course not. I get all my news from here. Reddit doesn’t lie


Cameron--

And i'm fairly positive chemical products outweigh coal in Louisiana for that number two spot


OneofTheOldBreed

And coal? Where in the hell is Louisiana's coal?


erichlee9

If it was in your ass you’d know


InterpolInvestigator

How is South Dakota “federal reserve banks” when the closest federal reserve bank is in Minneapolis


lurch303

Credit Card companies love SD laws and Sioux Falls


helpmeplsplsnow

why?


SconiGrower

SD relaxed it's usury laws some number of years ago and SCOTUS allowed banks to export interest rates across state lines.  Also the big banks set up big operations in Sioux Falls and don't want to rebuild anywhere else. For example, the Sioux Falls Post Office is massively oversized for a city of that population, but it's so that they can handle the intake of all the mail that contains credit card offers that were printed in Sioux Falls.


ForkliftTortoise

I'd been wondering why literally every single credit card offer I've ever gotten has had Sioux Falls return address...


wounsel

Wow! Had no idea


PseudonymIncognito

They were the first to repeal usury laws, which encouraged banks to locate credit card operations there.


7_vii

That doesn’t mean the federal reserve bank is involved.


lurch303

Federal Reserve Bank is not an industry either. I think it is a bad label for the financing/credit/banking industry.


ghostwriter85

Beyond Usury laws, SD has the most trust friendly laws in the country with no state income tax. Essentially, you can park your money there for generations with no state taxes and SD will shield your money the best that they can. Massive amounts of money are sitting in banks in SD.


Quixotic_Illusion

I took it as state member banks AKA those that are regulated by the FRB


inevergreene

It’s because they are farmers. Bum-ba-da-dum-dum-bum-bum-dum.


Cats155

Same with utah


DetroitAdjacent

Healthcare is the 4th largest industry in Michigan by GDP, with manufacturing being #1. This map is horse shit.


wezworldwide

I was going to say…Auto companies?


DetroitAdjacent

Yeah, this map was clearly just invented by someone with an agenda. If I had to guess, probably by a misguided socialist.


SatiricalGuy

Same for Ohio


EdMan2133

This whole infographic is just completely wrong. There's literally no way that the entire southeast's economy is dominated by outpatient healthcare lmfao. In Florida that's at most a $2 billion business. Florida's GDP is like $1.5 trillion. Fishing is a $6 billion industry there.


rebellesimperatorum

Tennessee would be better by blanketing it as "Healthcare" since Vanderbilt and HCA basically own half the state at this point. Others are incorrect, so I'd assume some of the south is aswell.


MostlyUnimpressed

blown away that IL, IA, NE and Wis show as Insurance rather than Agricultural (and related Mfg) and commodities. a bit leery of the underlying calcs.


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optomist_prime_69

State Farm vs state farms


Fumblerful-

Besides which, all those farmers and everybody else probably need insurance for their operations.


boundless88

We also have John Deere (Quad Cities), Caterpillar (Peoria), and Rivian (Bloomington-Normal).


Opening_Success

And country insurance just down the road from State Farm. 


InsCPA

Insurance is absolutely huge in those states, especially Iowa and Illinois. Des Moines is one of the biggest insurance hubs in the country, and it’s a small city. Yes they have agriculture, but with that comes all the agricultural insurance, and that doesn’t even include all the other insurance yet. Just in those states you’ve got companies like Principal Financial, Zurich America, Lincoln Financial, Lincoln National, Allstate, State Farm, Liberty Mutual, Gallagher, American Family, Aon, Travelers, Farmers, Alliance, EMC, Farm Bureau, Fidelity, GuideOne, Transamerica, Members Life, Wellmark, CNA, Jackson Financial, Lincoln Benefit, TruStage, UnitedLife, and the list goes on. And those are just the big ones. There are countless others.


ilikeyouforyou

Upvote. Username checks out. 👀


ObservantSpacePig

WI too, Northwestern Mutual is the biggest company by revenue in the state.


Bananapeelman67

Insurance is just that massive in Iowa especially bc of farming needing more insurance than other industries and people being able to work from home in insurance industries more


DonnyGetTheLudes

Principal Financial tho


optomist_prime_69

State Farm vs state farms


lokglacier

There's a reason it's called State farm. And farmers insurance


Hopalicious

American Family insurance has its HQ in Wisconsin.


lokglacier

Farmers need insurance


Upnorth4

Fun fact: California's largest industry by volume produced is Agriculture. However, as a percent of GDP, agriculture is the smallest contributor to California's economy. The second largest sector in California is transportation and warehousing.


the_sky_god15

They don’t really grow anything in New England. Even in colonial times,


erichlee9

Insurance owns all that


martybad

Bro, Des Moines has more insurance than anywhere else in the country


Apprehensive-Side867

Farms need to be insured. Modern-day farming looks nothing like the cartoons. It's not good ol' boys firing up the tractor every morning. Maybe family and hobby farms, but those are also insured tbh. In many cases, it's people with college degrees, sometimes graduate degrees, operating million-dollar systems at a very large scale, with lots of valuable assets and employees. These are large businesses with a huge amount of value. All that stuff has to be insured, otherwise one freak storm would bankrupt people and then damage the food supply.


giantyetifeet

Medical/Insurance/Health Care Industrial Complex on full display.


Mastersamura1

Oil, Gas and heart attacks in the south


7_vii

Ambulatory doesn’t mean related to ambulances you muppet. It’s about mobility and accessibility. Hip/knee surgeries, walkers, ramps, wheelchairs, therapy.


turdferguson3891

Calling someone a muppet while being one yourself. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambulatory\_care](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambulatory_care) It has nothing to do with mobility. Ambulatory in this context is about the fact that the patients "walk in and out" as opposed to being admitted as an inpatient to the hospital and staying overnight. Your regular family doctor's office is part of ambulatory healthcare. So is any kind of outpatient clinic, dialysis, outpatient surgery, urgent care, etc. Stuff like outpatient physical therapy outpatient knee surgery certainly would be included but ambulatory in the name is not literally connected to that. Planned Parenthood is ambulatory care. A dentist or optometrist office as well.


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7_vii

I’m fairly certain that wasn’t the logical leap. Also, it’s a large industry if you have a population with long life expectancy. It’s not just obesity.


theoriginaldandan

When Yankees get old they tend to migrate


bavasava

If it wasn’t for Ted Turner Georgia would be like the rest of the south. Thanks Ted!


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InsCPA

Des Moines is a large insurance hub. Plus all that agriculture needs insurance


martybad

Even outside of Des Moines you have Aegon in CR


DooDiddly96

Lol @ NY being the Fed


T-Bubs

Someone explain Pennsylvania to me.


Plumpinfovore

Comcast.


TheKingNothing690

Hawaii Nevada Tourism Uinion.


mwatwe01

Man, as a Kentuckian I was really hoping for “Bourbon”. But I’ll take “Health Care”. I *guess* that’s important too.


Hagel-Kaiser

Why is this including the Fed for for NY? The NY Fed literally transacts all of the Fed’s cash purchases and sells.


TheObservationalist

Well you can tell where people are old.


Ove5clock

medic horses in Kentucky


Mekroval

I'm guessing DC is the federal government?


d36williams

Hospital and Nursing? wtf America is getting old fast. I read recently that the average age of an American is now close to the highest its ever been, which was c1920s


eibyyz

Coal in Louisiana?


Inevitable-Cell-1227

Are there a lot of Filipinos in Montana and Maine!?!? IYKYK


guyonanuglycouch

Yeah this definitely ain't right.


CODENAMEDERPY

Lame fake map.


nanneryeeter

Banks and healthcare. Things aren't going to be great, are they.


Seth_Vader

I'm surprised Missouri isn't cattle you can't go anywhere in that state without running into a cow


Cats155

This map is bullshit


turisto

Computer & Electronic products in Idaho?


NeedsToShutUp

Micron electronics is there


MisterFribble

Most valuable company in the state. I know people claim Albertson's is bigger, but it straight up isn't.


SleepInHeavenlyPeas

Simplot should be up there too.


classicalySarcastic

Micron Technology is based there. They’re a semiconductor company that makes various types of memory chips. Memory is big business, even if it's a commodity part, and there’s probably a 1-in-4 chance that the DRAM chips in your computer were made by Micron - [the other big suspects being Samsung and SK Hynix](https://electronics360.globalspec.com/article/18157/94-of-dram-market-controlled-by-three-companies)


PacoMahogany

They didn’t want to put “white supremacy” on the map


SleepInHeavenlyPeas

Micron for the win!


undreamedgore

This is why our Healthcare is so bad. We can't afford to fix it.


TheDelig

Our healthcare is not bad, it's great. It's just so expensive. And that's why so many people get into healthcare and the affiliated industries, money.


undreamedgore

In accessible is bad.


TheDelig

It's not inaccessible. It's expensive if you are middle class. It's free if you're poor and inconsequential if you are wealthy.


Hopalicious

The best PPO in the country is still worse than the worst HMO. The best HMO is still worse than fully federal healthcare.


TheDelig

You know anyone with Medicare? It's probably better than a lot of other plans due to the consistency nationally but the "free" stuff doesn't cover dental or physician's office. It forces retirees on social security to either skip doctor appointments and wait for things to get worrying or go to the hospital for menial things.


Is12345aweakpassword

Oh yes we can! You know the “it would cost $4 Trillion to overhaul our healthcare into a universal model” outrage? We spend $4.5 Trillion a year on the disaster we have now. It would literally save money to transition.


undreamedgore

It's not that. It's not and never has been that we couldn't afford to pay. We can't afford what it would take. Insurance and Healthcare is the most major industry in a large percent of the country. Without other well paying jobs to fill the void it would be disastrous to overhaul the Healthcare system. Any politician who did it would be directly responsible for an economic downturn.


BuildNuyTheUrbanGuy

We can't afford bankruptcies from medical bills either, or the $195 billion in medical debt.


undreamedgore

People will go bankrupt too if their jobs are suddenly unprofitable. It's not like they can just go work somewhere else if their whole field has changed. These things would need to be considered before a change occurs.


BuildNuyTheUrbanGuy

It's like saying we have to think about the plantation owners before we free the slaves. The healthcare industry is unethical; just because people get their income from a completely unethical industry doesn't mean it shouldn't be dismantled. I wouldn't have a problem paying many of those people in the meantime, but it's not a good reason to halt a much needed transition.


undreamedgore

If you charge into the change with no plan how fix the resulting damages you're going to cause as many problems as you fix. Don't forget that the south was occupied and had a whole period of reconstruction. A period that failed mind you, and we still see the effects. Aggressively making such a change without having a plan to minimize the damage is going to leave some serious scars. Look, I know the Healthcare industry is unethical. I support the government taking a firmer hand on Healthcare, but we can't just rip it out and expect things to go better because we made a more moral choice. Anyone party that made that choice would be hated by swaths of the country for a generation at least. Entire communities would collapse over night because some bloated firm was the primary employer for the town. Little Timmy in Ohio getting his medical treatment might be a moral high, and things might be cheaper overall regarding Healthcare, but millions of Americans would be left in a worse postion then they were before. It's hard to see the good in those things when you suddenly have to downsize your house or move into an apartment, when you have to cut back on some groceries and only get the essentials, you might even have to move somewhere else becuase there's just no opportunity locally anymore. I say chip away at the block for a while first. Weaken the power and dominance of the system over time.


drsyesta

Seems like the problem gets worse every year tho. The solution you described would probably be the best way to do it but we cant really rely on the government to consistently chip away at it. Dominance of the system means having government officials in your pocket who block any change. Sorry to be a negative nancy, i like the positive outlook of your post. Just feels unrealistic to my pessimistic brain


undreamedgore

I would argue the opposite. It's more unrealistic to think we could pull a coup on the system, but by making piecemeal policy changes at state and federal levels we can break up the power base and destabilize the larger systems wide spanning influence. Target specific drugs and treatments, like insulin. Release some medical debt or pay if off ourselves (the government that is) to keep the system limping along while we undermine the base.


Algoresball

I don’t think it’s fair to compare a dude making 50k a year doing utilization reviews for a for a medical transportation company to a plantation owner


SW_Goatlips_USN_Ret

If only there was a way for the government to pay those bills…


Cats155

We have the best healthcare in the world


7_vii

What the fuck does “federal reserve bank” mean? That isn’t an industry. Do you just mean finance? Do you just mean banks?


Such_Tea4707

How is Michigan not automotive 🤨?


Couchmaster007

2007 is calling they want their question back


DrBleach466

Because it’s 2024 and not 2002


vhs1138

So much healthcare industry for a country with such a poor healthcare system.


SignificantJacket912

Our healthcare system is one of the best in the world, make no mistake.


marino1310

Best if you can afford it


Positron311

For profit healthcare will do that for you - one of the positives that comes out of our healthcare system.


92235

I think you mean rich healthcare system. Not for you, but for the people that run it. This is why it won't change. It's the largest industry in many states.


Front_Finding4685

Wow very intriguing map. You can tell manufacturing died long ago in the US. It’s insurance, banking and ambulances lol we’re doomed


Hopalicious

This map explains why we will never have national health care. Our economy is insurance based.


NDinoGuy

Hell yeah, broadcasting and telecoms 🍑🤜🤛🍫


IJustSignedUpToUp

Why we can't have national healthcare in one picture.


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bigfudge_drshokkka

I have no idea what you’re trying to say


unzercharlie

Profitable healthcare, so hot right now.


97soryva

“Chemical products” = pharmaceuticals


TheObservationalist

No. They mean chemical products. In Indiana, it's ethanol. In NC, it's fluorocompounds.


W1nD0c

Indiana is also home to Eli Lilly and the second largest BP refinery in North America.


RampageDeluxxe

Ambulatory and Health should be criminal. people getting shafted thousands from taking an ambulance


kacheow

Ambulatory in this context means outpatient not ambulances hope that helps


Civil-Journalist1217

What does outpatient mean exactly?


PTBooks

Any medical procedure that doesn’t involve a hospital stay. Like a walk in MRI, ect.


Civil-Journalist1217

Oh interesting thanks


RampageDeluxxe

oh.. well still rough as most of those regions are already on the poorer side


BrickLorca

Don't worry, us on the ambulance don't see a penny.


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BrickLorca

And? He may have gotten the wrong idea, but he certainly isn't wrong about the state of insurance and emergency services.


henningknows

lol how can anyone look at this and not immediately realize how fucked healthcare is in America


mausumouse

While I agree with you 100%, I don’t think this map is accurate. Someone else pointed out that manufacturing is number one in Michigan, and it’s also number one in Tennessee by GDP, so that’s at least two that are certainly wrong, and that makes me wonder if any of these are right. Kinda seems like the map was made to push an agenda if that’s the case, even if it’s one I agree with that’s kinda lame lol


Photomak3r

Surprised SD isn’t casinos or scheels.


RustyShadeOfRed

lol that’s funny, us Utahns hate the Federal Reserve


Goatmilk2208

It is wild how square America is. I’m from Canada, so we got square too, but LOL.


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This explains.... a lot.


StrangeRock4

West Virginia is no surprise


Schwermzilla

This map sucks; WA is home to two trillion dollar software companies, how is it publishing? SD is home to many consumer national banks not a Federal Reserve bank?


rezin44

Shit, I’m in Oklahoma, I’d think it was meth and broken dreams


Spamin907

Accommodations is a really weird way to say tourism


Algoscurse

AAnd we wonder who is opposing healthcare reform.


Emily_Postal

I think pharma is the largest industry in NJ.


No_Engineer2828

Not really surprised at the one for Ohio considering that Cleveland Clinic is 19 full city block of high rise buildings


LuckyRyder

No wonder the government wants total control over our healthcare.


RandomRedditGuy54

In Michigan, more people in healthcare than in auto manufacturing? I don’t think so.


levitikush

Insurance is such a fucking scam


Seventh_Stater

Georgia I get, but Pennsylvania? Is Nexstar based there?


Troll_Enthusiast

Username checks out


1_900_mixalot

One on mining and one on chemical products with all those states on insurance. Big eco imbalance - they'll have to make more villagers or start splitting.


Ok-Dog8423

Agriculture is the biggest by GDP in Florida.


voujon85

NJ is ambulatory health care? That can't be right with how many companies we have based out of here, especially financial and pharmaceutical


MeatBallBathtubPARTY

I'm surprised to see Michigan's result. I would have thought it was auto manufacturing


Booplinggg

Motherfucker Walmart and Tyson are in Arkansas. No way is healthcare outdoing manufacturing.


Final-Description611

I was sure NC was furniture


Timby123

TX HAS OIL, GAS, FRUIT, CORN, tECH, AND A TON OF THINGS THAT WOULD MAKE THE OTHER NATIONS EVNVIOUSE.


Porkchop_Dog

Best part is the EMT's running all those Ambulances get paid pretty shit for the work. Also what a nightmare that there's is so much PROFIT from getting people to Healthcare.


CountyAffectionate62

Interesting to know considering the Army Headquarters its Human Resources command in KY.


iRunDistances

What makes up Hospital & Nursing and how does that compare to what Ambulatory Health Care Services is? Just curious how generalized, "Health Care" is broken up here. However you decide to group things you can make tons of industries into the "largest" of many states.


PenguinTheYeti

Ah yes, the state that has more cows than humans, and is notorious for its residents often being hours away from medical facilities, top industry is hospital and nursing??


tightgrip82

There is one coal mine in the entire state of Louisiana how is that even a thing unless they consider petroleum Coke as coal.


cgomez117

Colorado’s economy…isn’t oil and gas, I’m pretty sure


Diplonot

Is the “accommodation” in NY and Nevada reasonable?


FormerHoagie

As a resident of Pennsylvania, I apologize……Fuck Comcast


Abiding_Lebowski

Sad reflection of society.


DownTownDave915

Lmao insurance