I don’t really have much to say… it kind of speaks for itself. I do appreciate the table of contents so you don’t get lost in the short paragraphs though
“We are told that technology is helping redistribute wealth from the common people to a small subset of extremely rich men. But, as an extremely rich man, I don’t really understand why this is a bad thing? Technology seems pretty cool to me!”
We are materially focused, for a reason – to open the aperture on how we may choose to live amid material abundance. … Material abundance from markets and technology opens the space for religion, for politics, and for choices of how to live, socially and individually.
Ah yes, material abundance like living in America’s most expensive ZIP code, a neighborhood with an average home price of $8mm and saying this about affordable housing:
“Please IMMEDIATELY REMOVE all multifamily overlay zoning projects from the Housing Element which will be submitted to the state in July,” Andreessen and his wife, Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, said via an email to the mayor and city council. “They will MASSIVELY decrease our home values, the quality of life of ourselves and our neighbors and IMMENSELY increase the noise pollution and traffic.”
I mean, of course he loves unfettered technology and capitalism. He’s a fucking billionaire. He hit the demographic lottery.
EDIT: I just noticed his list of “techno-optimist” patrons. On the list? John Galt. LMAO. The whole list is pretty much an orgy of libertarians.
Ludwig von Mises as well, which I continue to claim was a mistake.
