# Marc Andreessen - The Techno-Optimist Manifesto (Highlights)

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**Authors**:: [[Marc Andreessen]]
**Full Title**:: The Techno-Optimist Manifesto
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**Highlighted**:: [[2023-11-29]]
**Created**:: [[2023-12-02]]
## Highlights
- And so the only perpetual source of growth is technology. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hgd5ke6hdrh2652495t9w2y0)) ^633638099
- We believe free markets are the most effective way to organize a technological economy. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hgd5myzc6rhm6b7xwwyaa18e)) ^633638220
- We believe the market economy is a discovery machine, a form of intelligence – an exploratory, evolutionary, adaptive system. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hgd5n0v6bjy18498j088fnzr)) ^633638227
- David Friedman points out that people only do things for other people for three reasons – love, money, or force. Love doesn’t scale, so the economy can only run on money or force. The force experiment has been run and found wanting. Let’s stick with money. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hgd5qdccf32jdgrfgmz04a6c)) ^633638498