The billionaire says he wants to lead a "techno-optimist" revolution. But he's too rich to understand that his belief system is stupid.

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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?

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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.:”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Andreessen

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And, apparently, libertarian ultra-capitalist.

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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.

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?

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