Democrats Drove Silicon Valley into Trump's Arms (opens in new tab)

We’re beginning to see analyses talking about a reordering of social issues since the 2008 near-collapse. Andreessen cherry-picks when the cure is worse than the disease, so 2008 doesn’t come up in this at all.

One big inversion is the swamp. The DOGE is an unelected attendant government, bulging out of the frontier between executive and legislative branches. It could fail and need to be bailed out. It could succeed and deliver solutions to the mostly-social issues Andreessen feels personally attack him.

As long as I’ve been a Republican it’s mythological but well-supported that Democrats govern better, and the interviewer in this piece knows why. Andreessen is well-rehearsed in his faction’s talking points, much better than, say, JD Vance.

What I see is Andreessen basking in the afterglow of Trump doing a 180 on crypto. Not even the first issue 180. But he has a point: it’s too fashionably biased to choose a president based on principles.

I find it’s funny, because the only true groups of people who think that corporate C.E.O.s are just profit-optimizing machines are people on the far left, who are full-on Marxists, who really believe that, and then people on the far right, who I think fear that the C.E.O.s are like that but also maybe hope that they are and then later realize that they’re not.

What bollocks. I'm a capitalist and believe corporate CEOs are all profit optimizing machines. Isn't their god Milton Friedman, the man who made every corporation feel it was their duty to maximize shareholder profits? Can't have it both ways Marc.

Can't stand this spineless man.

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    So we met with very senior people in the White House, in the inner core.
    We basically relayed our concerns about A.I., and their response to us was, “Yes, the national agenda on A.I. We will implement it in the Biden administration and in the second term. We are going to make sure that A.I. is going to be a function of two or three large companies. We will directly regulate and control those companies. There will be no start-ups. This whole thing where you guys think you can just start companies and write code and release code on the internet — those days are over. That’s not happening.”