Hey tech billionaires, if you want to talk about radical change, let's abolish venture capitalism Samantha Floreani

Do you support sustainability, social responsibility, tech ethics, or trust and safety? In his new self-published Techno-Optimist Manifesto, Andreessen presents his case for the advancement of technology under capitalism as "virtuous" and capable of creating "abundance that lifts all humans". Along the way he champions trickle-down economics (famously effective at increasing inequality), claims technology can solve any problem and suggests that slowing AI development is akin to murder. If you think such proposals sound divorced from reality, you're right. The harms of the state of technology are many: rampant surveillance, consolidation of power, bias and discrimination in automated decision-making systems, worsening power dynamics and labour conditions as a result of automation, and threats to creative workers from generative AI.