I think one big thing I agree with is that folks are making themselves miserable by adopting this "woe is me" narrative about how life is so hard now and so on

I think one big thing I agree with is that folks are making themselves miserable by adopting this "woe is me" narrative about how life is so hard now and so on and so forth. Life is pretty good. I remember as a child being awed by what I thought then was the rate of progress and now it's even faster: AI, Space, and just appliance tech. I'm pretty anti-pessimist so many of these things appeal to me. Ultimately, though, it's hard to care that much because I know that Marc Andreessen is just content marketing here. His efforts to literally stop building homes in his town after publishing a work titled "It's time to build" really tarnishes everything he says and makes it obvious he's a bullshitter.