Marc Andreessen Is Wrong About Everything (gizmodo.com)
from FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 19 Oct 2023 19:24
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autotldr@lemmings.world on 19 Oct 2023 19:25 next collapse

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Now, after years of accumulating wealth, he seems to have finally found his life’s next calling: he will be a bold revolutionary—a kind of capitalist Che Guevara—in the struggle to push technological innovation to its utmost breaking point.

Those ideas apparently include anything related to “tech ethics,” “trust and safety,” “sustainability,” “social responsibility,” “existential risk” or any other regimen that suggests corporate America shouldn’t spend all its time trying to optimize profits.

It is these ideas, along with the dangers of “Communists” and “central planning”—which Andreessen spends a weird amount of time complaining about—that are threatening the future in which we, as a society, achieve the goal of limitless “growth” that accelerationists desire.

It’s also, undoubtedly, the same belief that has animated Andreessen’s own quixotic ventures—from trying to “disrupt” healthcare and housing to even trying to create a new city in California that is wholly funded by “private sector money.” Those first two efforts haven’t netted much results.

These days, if you’re not vampirically using your teenage son’s blood to regenerate your own aging body, or torturing monkeys to death in the hopes of creating the Matrix, or trying to get a belligerent reality TV star elected president, you’re just not winning.

This makes it all the more ironic that Andreessen names as one of his so-called “enemies” those who are “disconnected from the real world, delusional, unelected, and unaccountable – playing God with everyone else’s lives, with total insulation from the consequences.” Frankly, there’s no better description of the “techno-optimist” crowd—a gaggle of out-of-touch tech bros who think their wealth gives them license to chart a future nobody else wants.


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lettruthout@lemmy.world on 19 Oct 2023 19:30 next collapse

For the curious, that don’t read the article…

“American businessman and software engineer. He is the co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used web browser with a graphical user interface; co-founder of Netscape; and co-founder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.:”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Andreessen

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 19 Oct 2023 19:33 collapse

And, apparently, libertarian ultra-capitalist.

Eldritch@lemmy.world on 19 Oct 2023 22:44 collapse

It’s sad that as a society we’ve let capitalists masquerade as, and co-opt the term libertarian. To stand for all the things actual libertarians stand against.

They have their own term. They’ve kinda shunned it for years. But I’ve heard they’re starting to call themselves fascist again in some places.

leo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show on 19 Oct 2023 19:41 next collapse

tl;dr If you just let me break laws and violate human decency, we’d all be so rich flying around in space doing whatever we want all the time! C’monnnn. Pleeeease?

kaitco@lemmy.world on 19 Oct 2023 22:45 collapse

“We”. Not everyone. You poor plebs, stay at the bottom to lick our boot heels. “We” the already uber-rich will be even richer and living in some Star Trek-esque paradise.

flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz on 19 Oct 2023 19:54 next collapse

A billionaire being a revolutionary - strange thing happen in this world, if he’s honest about it I’ll believe him.
But he’s not saying anything about dismantling capitalism. Any revolution worth fighting for - he will not be a billionaire after it, and I don’t see him saying billionaires existing is a bad thing.

Touching_Grass@lemmy.world on 19 Oct 2023 23:29 collapse

Revolutions are were wealthy people seize power. If you’re a megalomaniac or just losing power, use your power and influence to convince the poor to riot and then swoop in and seize control in the chaos

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world on 19 Oct 2023 20:02 next collapse

Bruh I don’t even know Marc, but I agree.

[deleted] on 19 Oct 2023 20:31 next collapse

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drdabbles@lemmy.world on 19 Oct 2023 20:34 next collapse

He is an asshole, simple as that. He’s able to cast a wide enough net that he’s able to gain wealth even when investing wrong more than right. He’s an example of everything that’s wrong in the world right now.

Sanctus@lemmy.world on 19 Oct 2023 20:46 next collapse

These cucks will never stop trying to make Atlas Shrugged real.

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 19 Oct 2023 21:08 next collapse

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hiddengoat@kbin.social on 19 Oct 2023 21:12 collapse

Atlas Cucked. It's the story of a True Libertarian Hero that's totally a self made billionaire as soon as he finds a way to make the billions while working in middle management at the warehouse of a dairy. Not even the HQ. Also his girlfriend cheats on him and he falls for a crypto scam.

spittingimage@lemmy.world on 19 Oct 2023 20:49 next collapse

But Marc, money is effectively a rationing system. If we achieve this techno-utopia you’re looking forward to, won’t it make capitalism irrelevant?

Nougat@kbin.social on 19 Oct 2023 21:30 next collapse

... everyone will be rich ...

The only way that can possibly be true is if everyone's needs are always met, such that everyone experiences at least some luxury beyond those needs. If you are not pushing to make that happen first, you're just a liar.

This is completely ignoring the part about how we all come to agreement on what "needs" are, and what "meeting them" means, let alone how to fund meeting those needs.

KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml on 20 Oct 2023 00:16 next collapse

His manifesto straight up cited one of the coauthors of the Fascist Manifesto…and John Galt.

Did he go insane when he ate the crypto fruit?

Arghblarg@lemmy.ca on 20 Oct 2023 07:51 collapse

This monster also enabled Brendan Eich’s weekend project that infected the software world – javascript. May he burn for it.