1. Mars 2030. This one is fucking obvious. We've printed 2 trillion dollars to save our stock market, among other things. Why the fuck can't we go to Mars?
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This whole article, which the twittersphere will likely call "brilliant" (half because of Andreesen's brand, half because they need that SV deal flow), just falls in the top right quadrant. We need definite specific goals of what to build and how to improve. What do we do now? https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1251639190464258048 …pic.twitter.com/Wr6tLjen9c
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2. Bring back nuclear power and research. It's our most revolutionary and powerful untapped resource.
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3. Pass laws to end "being cancelled" -
@pmarca is scared because one time he got on twitter and said some things that some people deemed insensitive to India/Indians. "I apologize for any offense caused by my earlier tweet about Indian history and politics" - wrote Andreesen.pic.twitter.com/u73n7OJwaJ
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Universities have become these snake dens full of SJW accusations. If you don't tow the line you get cancelled. That's a major problem because Universities traditionally are where we have done great research and innovation! Instead, there, we have a culture of fear!
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One of the best ways to end this is to prevent Facebook, Twitter, etc. from moderating speech. Just shift it 100% to the US court system. It's like my Amazon Kangaroo Court argument. We have the world's greatest and most respected court system. Let them determine what is obscene.
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4. Bump up the capital gains rate to income tax levels. Our country is too much about the financialization of all assets and not about the creation of real good valuable things. Smart kids go to wall street instead of inventing because thats' where the money is.
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5. Reindustrialize our nation. Because the factory floor is in China, we miss out on all the innovations that happen there.
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6. Stop all immigration but merit-based innovation. No more chain. No more lottery bullshit. Just take the best and brightest. Make America a multicultural melting pot of the brightest minds the world has to offer in the best location on earth.
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7. It's time for the government to step in and stop people from pumping sugar into our bodies. It's killing us and it's totally unnecessary. The food pyramid is not right for most americans.
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8. Power through and fix health care. Either go all private or go all public (out of my area of competence here), but none of this corporate cronyist rent seeking moral hazard agency problem bullshit.
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what else - let's go! enough of this wishy-washy "let's build" bullshit
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**crickets** oh well I guess time to move to China 我欢迎我们的新霸王
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9. Here’s a controversial contrarian one! America needs to raise its testosterone. Testosterone in men has been falling after controlling for the likely culprits (not sure I totally believe the controls but whatever). If we can get it...up, we will start taking “risks” again!
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The tweets associated with Andreesen's article strongly support this better article from
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This is the point of the article. No one did that. Check out the top tweets: https://twitter.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fa16z.com%2F2020%2F04%2F18%2Fits-time-to-build%2F&src=typed_query …pic.twitter.com/mfMjwAtUwc
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10. It's about time the United States stops accepting PATHETIC results on mathematics from our country's children. This is a HUGE problem and makes it significantly more difficult for our company to compete in an increasingly global economic competition.pic.twitter.com/RoNNOB01uo
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