[ed405]

I’m a founder, this piece stirs my heart.

However, build what exactly? I don’t disagree with building hospitals and important public infrastructure. However:

1) More exponential growth isn’t by definition for the better 2) We need to ask ourselves, brutally and honestly, what actually needs building, and what doesn’t?

Aside from the obvious tangible tech and infrastructure we can build, there are also many tacit things we should be building and investing in, but that are difficult to measure: International cooperation, resilience, creativity.

There’s no point in building more infrastructure (Andreessen) or trying to populate other planets (Musk), if we continue having paralyzing social inequality and international conflict, which destroy what we build. ️

[adwn]

> [...] if we continue having paralyzing social inequality and international conflict, which destroy what we build

"We" (meaning the US and other developed Western nations) don't have "paralyzing social inequality". Social inequality, yes, but it's far, far from paralyzing. Also, "we" might be involved in international conflicts, but these destroy only a tiny fraction of what we build.

Your if-condition evaluates to false.