Am I the only one here that hated this article? If the point is we should invest more in things - we agree. We all agree. Pretty much everyone with any sense a

Am I the only one here that hated this article? If the point is we should invest more in things - we agree. We all agree. Pretty much everyone with any sense agrees. Even people on the right like Julius Krein have been pushing for nothing but this. The only ones that don't are our bought and paid-for politicians and their corporate cronies...but no mention of them. But what does that have to do with private capital investment. Seriously? Where is the connection. Why is it necessary to call out venture capital and "white male culture". So far as I can tell this article was nothing but a bunch of crass and nasty attacks. It starts all the way from white males nerds who "have no social lives". He thankfully teaches us that: > In the white male culture ... those cultures are extremely narrow. For women and people of color, those cultures are much more expansive. He then (wonderfully) quotes a failed start up by a black woman to have better substitute teachers that only failed because of lack of Andressen's money. That's some pretty powerful evidence right there. He then goes on to more directly attack Andressen for the (absurd) notion that a software start up incubator did not help with COVID. > I revisited the Andreessen Horowitz portfolio, which includes dozens of software winners, like Facebook, Box, Zynga, and Github, but not many companies building things that would have been useful in tackling the pandemic. Of course anyone who works in tech knows that github and plenty of his startups are used for remote work every single day. But no matter they didn't cure covid, which is his test for good investment. I would love to hear what he thinks qualifies as we literally have no solution for COVID right now except to stay home and wear cloth over our face. Then he goes on to quote his daughters making fun of Elon Musk and another unnamed executive. > He doesn’t seem to realize he’s the Once-ler,” she said, referring to the character in Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax And > “Who would do that to their kid?” asked Quinn. > “Don’t worry,” Lillie said. “X Æ A-12 Musk will be able to pay other kids not to bully him.” I guess that's a good example of the "expansive" culture of women that we desperately need more of. Of course most of this this article revolves around Ophelia a software startup trying to help with the opiod epidemic. No where is it mentioned that the opiod epidemic is not a natural phenomenon, but was manufactured in the most heavily regulated industry in America: healthcare. It came from as far a place from Silicon Valley as you can get. It was pushed by Big Pharma, their associations, and with the blessing of every government and non-government medical institution. ...but god I hate those Silicon Valley bros and their successful startups.