Soviet Union
2 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 25, 2022 by Marc Andreessen · said 49 times in 14 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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2017 2 mentions in 1 episode
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Jan 25, 2022 negative
Andreessen argues that US K-12 education operates as a Soviet-style monopoly
“K through 12 is a monopoly, right? It's a government-sponsored and run monopoly, and so, of course, it's gonna, you know, it's a Soviet system, right? It's gonna, it's run exactly the same way education was run in the Soviet Union. Of course, it's gonna genera…”
Jan 25, 2022 bullish
Andreessen: Open internet access makes Soviet-style totalitarianism impossible over time
“I mean, I guess I'm an optimist on this point. Like, I tend to think open access information basically makes a lot of these historical things, you know, fundamentally impossible. Not, you know, not necessarily, you know, not all centralized institutions get to…”