VCs like Marc Andreessen are willing to sacrifice macroeconomic stability on the altar of their own edge-lord, dorm-wanking, libertarian-cliff-notes authoritarian power fantasies.
The allure of being kingmakers in a centralized, undemocratic system outweighs any concerns about long-term economic health.
We're not talking about boy geniuses anymore. We're talking about macro-morons with micro-visions.
https://joanwestenberg.com/macro-morons-with-micro-visions-the-vc-disaster-tour
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