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Building the Future

Marc Andreessen of a16z, the Silicon Valley VC has recently published a fantastic post entitled " It's time to build ". He looks at how society has failed to see the Covid-19 crisis coming and how we as society are dealing with it. He claims "part of the problem is clearly foresight, a failure of imagination. But the other part of the problem is what we didn’t *do* in advance. [...] Our nation and our civilisation were built on production, on building. [...] There is only one way to honour their [our forefathers] legacy and to create the future we want for our own children and grandchildren, and that’s to build". Marc calls society to focus on building and less on rent-seeking of the accomplishments of our forefathers. The future is not built by societal-osmosis. The future of our societies is the sum of present actions taken by individuals and their teams over time. The success in building the future is the sum of the actions of special individuals. Thos...