cities
3 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 11, 2021 by Balaji Sr i n i v a s a n · across every show →
Everything said about cities, oldest first
Aug 11, 2021
Jul 3, 2025 negative
Andreessen: Knowledge-work economies concentrate urban wealth and squeeze out the middle class
“If you're gonna replant your, the sort of commanding heights of your economy on knowledge work, then what you're gonna do is you're gonna slam basically all economic growth into the cities, right? Because you're, which is what Silicon Valley has done, right? S…”
Jul 3, 2025 negative
Andreessen: Western cities form top-plus-bottom political coalitions, ejecting the middle class
“What happens is from a political standpoint is the cities that are run right there in, in, in, in their local democracies, it's these super high end kind of, you know, very progressive elites. And then it's sort of the clientele underclass. Right. That you kno…”