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Comment by LargeWu

1 day ago

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.

    • It’s Andreesens all the way down.

      The abundance movement is not a grassroots group of people, it’s a lab creation of billionaire/donor types. Andreesen is one of them, that’s the context for the link. Reid Hoffman is another.

      These people want to find a way to distract from the appeal of progressive policies of the kind put forward by Lina Khan and others who actually attempt to directly take on the concentrated economic power that’s strangling normal people in this country. They’re the ones doing the strangling.

      It’s propaganda, a PR project by oligarchs. It’s fundamentally done in bad faith and there’s absolutely nothing obligating me to take them at face value.

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