Marc Andreessen
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard 1 Aug
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And I'll give you an example of how the real world is really messy.
It requires 900 hours of professional certification training to become a hairdresser in the state of California.
Um, so it's like 35% of the economy, something like that.
You have to get some sort of professional certification to do the job, which is to say that the professions are all cartels, right?
And so you have to get licensed as a doctor.
You have to get licensed as a lawyer.
You have to get licensed as a, you have to get into a union.
Um, by the way, to, to work for the government, you need to be, you have both civil service protections and you have public sector unions.
You have two layers of insulation against ever getting fired for anything or anything, anything ever changing.
Um,
I'll give you another example.
The dock workers went on strike a couple of years ago because of robotics.
If you go look at a modern dock like in Asia, it's all robots.
If you go to an American dock, it's all steel guys dragging stuff by hand.
The dock workers went on strike.
It turns out there are 25,000 dock workers working on docks in America.
It turns out they have incredible political power because it's one of these unified blocks of things.
They won their strike, and so they got commitments from the dock owners to not implement more automation.
We learned a couple of things in that.
So number one, we learned that even a union as small as 25,000 people still has like tremendous political stroke.
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