Texas suffered from the cheap labor of folks who worked their asses off doing jobs Americans won't get their fat asses off the sofa to do?
Don't excuse yourself about schadenfreude, we're accustomed and it's entertaining.
In the meantime, Chicagoans and New Yorkers taxes keep funding the budgets of the "taker states".
Possibly this forum, internet, PrEP and SO many other things we enjoy daily wouldn't exist if it wasn't for entrepreneurs, and freethinkers from San Francisco.