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IT’S TIME TO BUILD

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Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will reverberate for the rest of the decade, but it's not too early to ask why, and what we need to do about it... Our nation and our civilization were built on production, on building. We built roads and trains, farms and factories, then the computer, the microchip, the smartphone, and uncounted thousands of other things that we now take for granted, that are all around us, that define our lives and provide for our well-being. There is only one way to create the future we want for our own children and grandchildren, and that's to build.

It's Time to Build | Andreessen Horowitz It's Time to Build Marc Andreessen Posted April 18, 2020 Subscribe Share Share Email X LinkedIn Facebook Hacker News WhatsApp Flipboard Reddit Share Share Email X LinkedIn Facebook Hacker News WhatsApp Flipboard Reddit Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will reverberate for the rest of the decade, but it's not too early to ask why, and what we need to do about it. Many of us would like to pin the cause on one political party or another

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