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> And why is this a good thing?

Ok, well, I personally really like driving a car with zero tailpipe emissions, and the cleaner air that comes from it (Tesla).

I think it’s awesome having a little rectangle in my pocket that sends text messages from anywhere on earth and summons an encyclopedia (Apple, Google, Starlink, Intel).

I enjoy talking to (and seeing) my friends and family while they are thousands of miles away (Cisco, Apple, and many others).

I think it is fantastic that we continue to find new labor-saving methods of farming so that fewer people need toil in the fields (the current batch of ag-drone and ag-AI startups).

This is like asking “well, why do we need that science mumbo jumbo anyhow?”



Claiming that all of these would not exist without VC is hard to believe.




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