Marc Andreessen
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first heard Jun 2023
last heard 8 Jul
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And they were like ancient history today.
Right.
I mean, the ultimate example of this is, you know, United States 200 years ago, like 99% of the people in the U.S.
were farming.
And today it's like 2%.
And having, you know, grown up in farm country, I can tell you all these people who worry about, you know, job loss and job change would not like to go back and be farmers.
I guarantee that.
And particularly they would not like to go back and be farmers the way people were farming in 1800.
Like they definitely don't want to do that.
And so the new jobs that have been created, of course, are far better jobs.
And that isn't to, you know, understate the level of, you know, kind of stress in individual people's lives as the economy changes.
But in aggregate, the result is evolution towards, you know, towards higher income and sort of more jobs that people are happier to do.
By the way, you can also see all of this playing out in the American economy broadly, which is the American economy is – again, there's this kind of Doomer narrative that has been for a long time that like the American middle class is falling apart.
And the sort of presumption of that is that all the middle class people are kind of falling off the ledge and becoming lower class.
But actually the –
And by the way, there is some of that and, you know, there are communities in which that's very clearly happening.
But having said that, there is at least as much or more of the other phenomenon, which is people in the middle class climbing the ladder into the upper middle class and, you know, rapidly gaining in wealth and income and wealth.
And again, just like quality of life for themselves and for their kids and their grandkids as time passes.
And that is a consequence of actual economic development, technological change, job transformation actually being allowed to happen.
20 years later, you look back and you're just like, oh, thank God.
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