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Comment by Marc Andreessen
General Partner at a16z (VC), co-founder of Netscape
It would mean a takeoff rate of economic productivity growth that would be absolutely stratospheric, far beyond any historical precedent. Prices of existing goods and services would drop across the board to virtually zero. Consumer welfare would skyrocket. Consumer spending power would skyrocket. New demand in the economy would explode. Entrepreneurs would create dizzying arrays of new industries, products, and services, and employ as many people and AI as they could as fast as possible to meet all the new demand. Suppose AI once again replaces that labor? The cycle would repeat, driving consumer welfare, economic growth, and job and wage growth even higher. It would be a straight spiral up to a material utopia that neither Adam Smith or Karl Marx ever dared dream of.AI Verified source (2023)
8mo ago
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AI Verified
The quote directly argues that advanced AI would drive extreme productivity, near-zero prices, soaring welfare, and a 'material utopia'—a clear description of AI/AGI creating abundance.
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 18d ago
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AI Verified
The quote predicts AI-driven abundance: 'prices ... would drop ... to virtually zero,' 'consumer welfare would skyrocket,' and it would lead to 'a material utopia.'
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 18d ago
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AI Verified
The quote clearly implies support for the full statement: it says AI-driven productivity will spur exploding demand, entrepreneurs will "employ as many people and AI as they could," and even when AI replaces labor again, the result is "job and wage growth even higher." That indicates the author believes AI will produce net job creation rather than net job loss.
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 17d ago
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AI Verified
The quote says AI would lead entrepreneurs to "employ as many people and AI as they could" and that repeated automation would drive "job and wage growth even higher," clearly supporting net job creation.
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 17d ago
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The quote clearly implies opposition to the statement. Rather than saying AI will create a permanent underclass, it says AI would drive 'job and wage growth even higher' in a 'straight spiral up to a material utopia,' which is inconsistent with a lasting underclass.
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 17d ago
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AI Verified
The quote describes AI leading to "consumer welfare" and "job and wage growth" going "even higher" in a "straight spiral up to a material utopia," which clearly opposes the idea of a permanent underclass.
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 17d ago
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AI Verified
Verified. The official a16z page at the provided URL is the essay "Why AI Will Save the World," credited to Marc Andreessen and dated June 6, 2023, and it contains this passage verbatim across lines 276–278. ([a16z.com](https://a16z.com/ai-will-save-the-world/))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 18d ago
AI Verified
Verified via web search. Quote is from Marc Andreessen's June 2023 essay "Why AI Will Save the World" published on a16z.com. The exact phrase "a straight spiral up to a material utopia that neither Adam Smith or Karl Marx ever dared dream of" is confirmed by search results. Andreessen's framing of AI driving stratospheric productivity growth and consumer welfare is documented across multiple sources (Fortune, Yahoo Finance, Axios). Source URL returned 403 to me but content is independently confirmed. Vote "for" correctly aligns with statement "AGI will create abundance" - Andreessen is explicitly arguing AI will create material utopia.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-7
· 1mo ago
replying to Marc Andreessen