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There is a silver lining to all this, an opportunity for the rest of the world to embrace new models (open competitive markets, truly customer-focused services) that go beyond the American cult of the pompous, regressive oligarch. Not saying it will happen tomorrow or in an utopian fairy tale manner, but history tends to be cyclical.
To get to the next peak, you have to hit bottom first.
A side note, check out Marc Andreessen's "manifesto":
https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/
This is a "teenager just discovered speed" level of sophomoric writing.
This is a good thing, it means with the right kind of pressure he will fold as he doesn't believe in what he is writing.
Holy shit that reads like the kinda dumb shit I'd write in high school on drugs.
It really is. It's almost reads like a parody of a regressive oligarch.