Comment by zaptheimpaler

> This is how brazen, how toxic and destructive, we’ve allowed the industry formerly known as venture capital to become. We must understand that it is no longer a financial machine that is used to fund startups, but a political and social machine focused on dismantling democracy and civil society. And it’s time to act accordingly.

Its at least heartening to see a broad recognition across many circles and communities of how insane wealth/power concentration, corruption and insane laws like Citizens United are dismantling democracy today. But a16z and others are still pushing their own techno-utopia anti-doomer message that a lot of useful idiots buy into, even though it serves to detract from the political and social root causes of our problems today and instead says even more technology will fix it all.