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Marc Andreeseen laying out a straightforward case for just making the government better on Bari Weiss’ show:

BW: “We don’t want to live in a country where there is no public health authority…”

Marc Andreeseen laying out a straightforward case for just making the government better on Bari Weiss’ show:

BW: “We don’t want to live in a country where there is no public health authority…”

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1REqvbgCX8PNcH3Je0iVRG?si=NA1VuOs3QFaOT2HgVZ72UA&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A0GRPAKeSMASfbQ7VgNwYCR

MA: “Oh 100%. But look, what built the government we have today is in the 1930’s Roosevelt like dramatically transformed the government…It was the Ycombinator of its time, right, the federal government was the Ycombinator of 1933. The New Deal right…”

“…and these were all people that would be the exact same kinds of people that we have who come into Ycombinator and come into our firm and pitch and start companies…”

“they’re smart young athletes, they haven’t spent 30 years studying government, they haven’t been l, you know, government bureaucrats forever, they don’t come from a long history of government service but they’re very smart, they’re very well educated, they’re very good systems thinkers, right…”

“what you really want is somebody who can wrap their head around a complex system, they’re really good at understanding incentives, they’re really good at understanding how to build things, they’re really good at understanding how to deliver high levels of performance”

“…one of the reasons why FDR is such a legend is because the FDR era of government was actually high performance. It actually worked, right, like it did electrify the Tennessee Valley, the Biden administration DID NOT build electric charging stations.”

“Who do you assume is going to be better at building electric charging stations, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, or the guy who built the electric car, right, so it’s definitely a change from how DC has been operating, it’s definitely a change from the kinds of people who’ve been recruited to run these things for the last 40 years…”

“…it’s hard for me to believe that they’re gonna do a worse job, it’s quite straight forward for me to believe they’re gonna do a better job.”

“…and so you put out the call and what the call is, it’s every smart 25-30 year old who’s good at anything, you bring them to Washington and you create an agency and you put them in charge and you have them go do it. And it’s like Harry you go electrify the Tennessee Valley…”