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I have thoughts on the tech oligarchs and the system that made them

Andreessen thinks there was a "Deal" that was betrayed. I have thoughts on what would be closer to the actual arrangement, if not a "deal" because there's no was no such thing. If anyone betrayed anything, it was Andreessen and his peers. www.liberalcurrents.com/marc-andrees...

There's a conservative trope that young radicals are self-destructive, seeking to undermine the conditions that allowed them to be educated and supported their egalitarian values. The truth is that this is precisely what the tech oligarchs are doing www.liberalcurrents.com/marc-andrees...

The Mosaic browser was developed at a research unit in a state research university, and received an NSF grant. Andreessen then went off and created Netscape based on what he learned from that process. Now he cheers the destruction of that entire infrastructure www.liberalcurrents.com/marc-andrees...

I kind of wish he didn't get funded and he ended up stuck in Wisconsin as a struggling dairy farmer. Someone else would have pioneered the web browser. And that person probably would have been less of a narcissistic dick.