Comment by CPLX
1 day ago
The abundance movement IS a bad faith movement. It’s entirely the creation of the donor/billionaire set and its rollout is designed to stop the Democratic Party from taking the obvious next step of tackling concentrated economic power, following the utter and abject failure of corporate centrism.
There’s literally no ambiguity here, the abundance summits feature obvious had faith actors like Andreesen.
This kind of thing has been going on for decades. It’s the same playbook as Third Way and New Dems and so on.
These people’s ideas led to the current political situation we’re in today. They don’t want to be held accountable for that.
So we get this Calvinball style collection of principles that change weekly but never seem to ever even consider doing something that Reid Hoffman and Mark Cuban and their friends don’t like.
This is a purely ad-hominem attack.
Ad-hominem is a great way to understand a group of people that are obviously full of shit and engaged in self-serving advocacy.
Unless you think this guy is actually interested in building more housing:
https://fortune.com/2022/08/13/atherton-california-housing-m...
Maybe I'm missing context but this would be the exact opposite of the Abundance agenda.
If your point is that Andreesen advocates for abundance policies, but then also opposes them in classic NIMBY fashion when it affects him, well, that's an indictment of Marc Andreesen, not Abundance mentality. In fact, your point inadvertently seems to say "Marc Andreesen is not Abundance enough!" since he is engaged in anti-Abundance activity in lobbying against multi-family housing.
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