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Marc Andreessen Is a Maniac


It's never been clearer that the VC founder's whole outlook on life revolves around how great it is to be rich and how shameful it is to be anything else.

On its website, a storied timeline lays claim to a host of impressive historical events—the Wright brothers’ first flight, the invention of the transistor, the Manhattan Project, the moon landing—and frames them all as part of the American Dynamism “movement,” as if A16z had something to do with any of that stuff. A site visitor reading through this garbage might be distracted enough to forget that the fund is promoting a host of private defense, surveillance, and weapons contractors who will hoard breakthroughs for themselves. I dared venture that it is always worth mourning when a venerable human community passes from the Earth; that maybe people are more than just figures finding their proper price on the balance sheet of life …

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