The Truth Hurts!

Marc Andreessen Is a Traitor

And one of these.

It is the tech oligarchs, not young radicals, who have turned against the system that made them.

Marc Andreessen believes there was a deal, however. A “Deal, with a capital D” that “was just something everybody understood.”

You’re me, you show up, you’re an entrepreneur, you’re a capitalist, you start a company, you grow a company, and if it works, you make a lot of money. And then the company itself is good because it’s bringing new technology to the world that makes the world a better place, but then you make a lot of money, and you give the money away. Through that, you absolve yourself of all of your sins.

Then in your obituary, it talks about what an incredible person you were, both in your business career and in your philanthropic career. And by the way, you’re a Democrat, you’re pro-gay rights, you’re pro-abortion, you’re pro all the fashionable and appropriate social causes of the time. There are no trade-offs. This is the Deal.

Left unclear are what the “sins” in question are supposed to be or how much of his money Andreessen actually gave away. At any rate, Andreessen feels that this deal has been broken. It was broken by elite universities, who turned the children of elites into “America-hating communists.” And it was broken by the Democratic Party, which “decided that we were to blame for Trump.” The communist millennials who entered the workforce in the 2010s sought to destroy every institution they touched, including the companies invested in by Andreessen-Horowitz, and the Democratic-controlled media abetted them. This escalated when Biden came into office and, for example, “They just ran this incredible terror campaign to try to kill crypto. Then they were ramping up a similar campaign to try to kill A.I.”

Since “the Deal, with a capital D” had been broken, Andreesen and his cohorts had no choice but to throw their lot in with Trump, who now is making those dealbreakers pay the price. And it’s going swimmingly, from Andreesen’s point of view. He is no longer bound by the terms of “the Deal,” which required him to pay lip service to “all the fashionable and appropriate social causes” such as human rights and equal dignity. 

To his dying day, Andreessen will surely believe that they are the traitors, that he was the one who was betrayed. But the only traitor is Andreessen himself.

Previously noted, but this goes on at length.