Communism
topic on 4 shows · 10 statements across 7 episodes
American Optimist 
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Andreessen: 1980s US Economics Textbooks Claimed Communism Was Superior to Capitalism
“American, common American undergraduate textbooks, economics textbooks, into the 19 eighties would stated as fact that communism was the superior economic system to capitalism, and they would have these charts of projected growth rates, and they would show tha…”
Kamath: Socialism Fails At Scale Because Trust Collapses Among Strangers
“I feel like in a family, you can be communist almost, if it's your family. With a group of friends, you can be socialist. But as the group becomes wider, I don't think socialism works because trust factor falls very quickly. We don't trust people inherently th…”
Hays: Communism is one of history's most significant iterations of the Antichrist
“Communism is arguably, you know, one of the most historically significant iterations of the Antichrist, and we need to fight back.”
Andreessen: Capitalist flaws are ten times worse under communism
“Any criticism that can be leveled against the capitalist society or economy you can just 10 X it. And you know, whatever it is, whether it's environmental damage or quality of life or whatever, it's just worse under communism.”
Horowitz: AI is actual communism while blockchain is advertised communism
“AI is what communism actually is a massive concentration of power and blockchain is what communism is advertised to be, which is power to the people.”
Andreessen: High-IQ and abstract thinkers are uniquely susceptible to communism
“And so there was this, it was this very kind of powerful magnetic pole especially for, you know, as it turns out, especially for kind of super high IQ people I would say super high IQ people, super verbal people. Which is sort of a recurring pattern which we c…”
Andreessen: Einstein and Oppenheimer willfully ignored Soviet communist atrocities
“And unfortunately, you know, the history of this is, is that, you know, Einstein and Oppenheimer and others basically chose to ignore the information and they chose to buy into a system sort of past the point that, you know, for at least for people as smart as…”
Ben Horowitz: Communism Concentrates Total Power in Government
“What communism really is in effect is it's not a distribution of power to everybody. It's a massive concentration of power to the small number of people who run the government because you remove a hundred percent of the power from the private sector and place …”
Balaji: Wokeness is the redistribution of status via social media mobs
“It's a, it's capitalism compatible, you know, radical left, actually, in the sense that, you know, with communism communism was the redistribution of wealth and wokeness is the redistribution of stats. You know, communism had, you know, the union strike and wo…”
Balaji Srinivasan: Decentralized network vs centralized state is the defining modern political axis
“The centralized state and the decentralized network, that is the real political acts of the world. That is the, that is, you know, just like capitalism versus communism was the big, big fight of the, you know, 20th century. The network versus the state, the de…”