# Marc Andreessen - The Techno-Optimist Manifesto (Highlights) ![rw-book-cover|256](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/media/uploaded_book_covers/profile_155788/Tech-Optimist_Facebook-11.jpg) ## Metadata **Review**:: [readwise.io](https://readwise.io/bookreview/34725364) **Source**:: #from/readwise #from/reader **Zettel**:: #zettel/fleeting **Status**:: #x **Authors**:: [[Marc Andreessen]] **Full Title**:: The Techno-Optimist Manifesto **Category**:: #articles #readwise/articles **Category Icon**:: 📰 **URL**:: [a16z.com](https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/) **Host**:: [[a16z.com]] **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