Marc Andreessen

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The a16z Show · Marc Andreessen: Monitoring the Situation and the Future of Media · 21 Apr 2026 podcast

And, you know, management would literally, you know, the strikers would try to attack their plants and the management literally would have like machine guns and they'd be like machine gunning their striking workers.

crazy, crazy stuff.

And so like we just we we live in a much crazier world than we want to give ourselves credit for.

And the idea that like the current level of conflict is something new is just not true.

Well, so the funny thing is different Western countries show different data on the quote unquote rise in depression.

Yeah.

And basically it turns out it correlates to social benefits programs.

And so basically if you get paid or if you get like special dispensation at school for having psychological issues, all of a sudden you see a massive spike in those psychological issues.

The countries that don't have that, the other Western countries that don't have that don't show the same results.

And so I actually think that's a statistical artifact of literally like government benefits programs.

Um, so I, like, I don't even, yeah, I would, I would say I don't, I don't, I don't even, I don't even, I don't even concede the, uh, you know, concede the premise of the question, but that's, that's, that's a longer debate.

Um, I would just say in general, like, I guess what I say, I, I am, I am prepared to say that basically call it since, I don't know, 2014 or something.

I'm prepared to say like, it does feel like things have intensified, right?

It, it, it does feel like things are like wilder, um, you know, than they were before that.

Um, I,

I think the most that I would be willing to say, though, is I think we might have lived through an era of what you might call suppressed volatility and call that maybe from like the end of the Cold War through 2014, where basically it just looked like the West had won everything.

And then also it was sort of, by the way, it was sort of the peak heyday of centralized media.

Um, so if you just like, if you basically track, if you track like how distributed is media versus how centralized is media, like centralized media sort of peaked somewhere around 1970, um, where, you know, literally like all the newspapers in every city consolidated down to like a single newspaper.

And then you ended up with only three television networks and all the radio stations, independent radio stations got bought up.

Uh, let me give you an example.

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