Indeed, Andreessen is obsessed with the idea of growth for growth’s sake, in the notion that we can attain, as he puts it an “engine of perpetual material creation, growth, and abundance.”

In the future, everyone will have a personal jetpack, and we’ll eat all our meals in a pill.

Nah. The original “things” always included “laws and regulations we, the techbros, have unilaterally decided are a buzzkill”. It’s just a reskinning of ‘ask forgiveness, not permission’.

It does, but it’s the most basic iteration of ‘government interference in private affairs’. If Andreesen’s company violates a contract with me, why shouldn’t he personally be liable, and not merely the imaginary person he told the government officially exists?

I mean, dialectical materialism is still taught academically, whereas Austrian economics - the theoretical foundation of Libertarianism - isn’t.

I’m not sure what point you thought you were making.

Which Gundam timeline do we think this manifesto points towards?  I need to start training my children to pilot war machines sooner rather than later, and if it IS G Gundam, while I respect Lumber Gundam, I need time to source the moose head and beaver tail that Canada’s international contender actually requires.  Pun…

I wager that because of imperfections in the science and the unreliability of the estimates involved, one of many theories could explain such a small difference. Perhaps the ancient Anatolians were racist toward Neanderthals and their descendants, or vice versa...although I’m guessing that that theory wouldn’t be…

Atlas farted.

The root of the word is associated with Greek wrestling of all things. It originally referred to a hold from which you couldn’t break free.

Only whatever made them billionaires. 

“Every time a price falls, the universe of people who buy it get a raise in buying power, which is the same as a raise in income. If a lot of goods and services drop in price, the result is an upward explosion of buying power, real income, and quality of life.”

Governments may be inefficient in practice, but markets are inefficient by design. Profit is an inefficiency. A perfectly efficient system is energy in = energy out, but profit explicitly removes some of the energy (in the form of money) from the system, so that more energy is required to produce less product.

Show me ONE multi millionaire or billionaire who hasnt lost touch with reality.

yeah: that deregulation will make them even richer than they already don’t deserve or need to be.

Nothing new. This is Musk’s ancestry and inspiration at work - Technocracy, which his grandfather was involved in. Good story on CBC about it - his grandfather was a Canadian. Technocracy is anti government, which helps to explain Musk.

Capitalism is on its last legs.

Beldar Conehead called...

So, that’s what an egg head looks like...and thinks like. An idiot savant.

I want to know how Libertarians would deal with a runaway “grey goo” scenario of self-replicating nanomachines. It’s technology!  It cant be bad, right? 

I wish more tech people took the idea of Data-driven Central Planning seriously. Like pointing the awesome power we have at our disposal towards an efficient and equitable distribution of resources? Do they really not think we could do better than market logic? Like a new attempt at Project Cybersyn? Could be cool. I…