It’s Time To Build - Andreessen Horowitz
Summary
I think the core message is that Americans are okay with being complacent and sitting on their asses rather than building something, and contributing something valuable (whether physically or ideologically) to the world.
We know one-to-one tutoring can reliably increase education outcomes by two standard deviations (the Bloom two-sigma effect); we have the internet; why haven’t we built systems to match every young learner with an older tutor to dramatically improve student success?
First of all - good point. Second, research the Bloom two-sigma effect 202006241441 (is this where two sigma got its name from)
The problem is desire. We need to want these things. The problems is inertia. We need to want these things more than we want to prevent these things. The problem is ==regulatory capture==. We need to want new companies to build the things, even if incumbents don’t like it, even if only to force the incumbents to build these things. And the problem is will. We need to build these things.
Regulatory capture 202006241445
The right starts out in a more natural, albeit compromised, place. The right is generally pro production, but is too often corrupted by forces that hold back market-based competition and the building of things.
The left starts out with a stronger bias to ward the public sector in many of these areas. To which I say, prove the superior model!
The right “naturally” leans towards private enterprise and production, whereas the left leans more towards large public funds and projects. Andreesson tries to bring those two ideologies together by arguing that their are two sides of the same coin when it comes to building more stuff in America.
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