Don’t get me wrong, I love technology. But the other edge of the sword here is that the ability to text and Zoom and YouTube and DoorDash etc. is the only reaso

Don’t get me wrong, I love technology. But the other edge of the sword here is that the ability to text and Zoom and YouTube and DoorDash etc. is the only reason that lockdowns were even possible in most of the world. Without these tools, it would have unconscionable for policymakers to try to put millions of people on house arrest, especially if their class’ own livelihoods were liable to be as damaged as physical small business owners and workers. Andreessen is treating lockdowns as an inevitable natural force here rather than a policy decision with particular tradeoffs. In their own (unavoidable) way, these tools enabled lockdowns just as much as they helped people during them.