Balaji Srinivasan

On one level, that's completely obvious because we're techno-capitalists.

On the other hand, it's non-obvious.

Why?

Because the capitalists was, the beef with them is they were centralizing the means of production and they had these big factories and so on that nobody could afford.

But we're decentralized production.

Everybody has a laptop.

And the capitalists, everything was centralized and it was mass media, mass production.

We're decentralizing everything.

We're giving equality of opportunity to everybody in the world.

Everybody in the world has basically the same, as I've said before, you have essentially the same smartphone experience as Sergey Brin.

You have the same information at your fingertips as...

you know, Elon Musk, for the most part, right?

Like, what's he on every day?

He's on X, just like you and I. Like, in a sense, there's been an enormous global leveling, right, with the internet.

The internet is actually global equality.

You have all these tools at your disposal, AI tools, this tool, that tool, literally just hit keys on the keyboard and you can create all these...

On that note, I'm going to have to wrap because Marc Andreessen is coming in two minutes.

Okay, fine.

So net-net is we need to, as technologists, build a better form of media, not just tell our own stories and go direct, but prove correct because a lot of people will be mad at us since we've been successful.

Since often we're ethnically different, immigrants, Indians, Chinese, whatever, whatever, right?