For years, Marc Andreessen has had so much money hes barely known what to do with himself.
As you might expect, its completely and utterly ridiculous.
Move fast and break everything
Andreessens newly espoused ideology did not spring up in a vacuum.
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The group has appropriately been referred toas a cult.
How will this happen?
Through technological innovation, of course!
Put another way: considerations of the public good are harming the public good.
This, in short, gives the impression of what Andreessen and his cohort believe.
At the beginning of the manifesto, the billionaire tells us that we have been told lies about technology.
These lies, as far as can be discerned, are that technology can ever be harmful.
Yes, in Andreessens eyes, technology can never be bad.
Andreessen also says that the techno-optimist movement has enemiesnot people, but ideas.
Comparative advantage increases specialization and trade.
Prices fall, freeing up purchasing power, creating demand.
Falling prices benefit everyone who buys goods and services, which is to say everyone.
Andreessens beliefs about productivity are a good example.
Andreessen might wish this were the case but that doesnt make it so.
Heres another example of the same shoddy economic thinking:
We believe the measure of abundance is falling prices.
Lower prices are always nice, sure, thats true.
But its also true that totally unfettered capitalism of the kind Andreessen envisionsdoes not leadto falling prices.
Those first two efforts havent netted much results.
Well see how well the third works out (my expectations are low).
It wasnt created by the free market.
It wasnt created by Steve Jobs tinkering in his Los Altos garage with Woz.
Techno-bullshit and the AI revolution
As an ideology, techno-optimism doesnt make much sense.
To be fair, this is an apt description of most of Silicon Valley.
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