Marc Andreessen's Worldview in 60 Minutes | Live on MTS

Imagine a scene: in Silicon Valley today, there are programmers who no longer sleep, with deep dark circles and hallucinatory eyes, but with the smile of a child in front of a new toy. They call them "AI vampires" — vampires of artificial intelligence. They are exhausted, but euphoric, because AI has multiplied their productivity twentyfold in one year. And that's just the beginning. Marc Andreessen's thesis is clear: everything we've been told about technology stealing jobs, society self-destructing due to too much empathy, and young people with no future, is wrong. The real game changer? AI, instead of replacing human labor, expands it. And those who know how to use it become a superpower, not an unemployed person. Take the story of Twitter: Elon Musk fired 70% of the staff, and not only did the platform not collapse, but it works better than before. In fact, Andreessen talks about companies where "the right number" of cuts would be even higher. What he calls "bloat" — organizational bloating — was the real burden: all those people weren't needed because even before, efficiency was just a facade. And today, with AI accelerating everything, companies aren't just laying people off because of robots: they finally have an excuse to cut what was already useless. But the real game-changer is something else: those who use AI don't work less, they work more. Andreessen talks about friends — even people who had never written a line of code — who have become "superproducers" thanks to systems like Codex. They have started programming again, they build products themselves, and they are highly sought after on the market. And the companies? They offer higher salaries precisely to those who manage to multiply their productivity with AI. It's not a theory: it's already a reality in the hiring data and financial statements of tech companies. Then there is the issue of "suicidal empathy." Andreessen quotes Gad Saad and Thomas Sowell: behind many social reform campaigns, in San Francisco as elsewhere, there is a form of empathy that actually causes enormous harm to the very people it would like to help. And often those who lead these movements are neither truly empathetic nor willing to sacrifice: rather, they use the cause to accumulate power, money, and status. The SPLC — the Southern Poverty Law Center — affair is emblematic. The organization was accused of having financed, using donor money, even supremacist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazis. A private NGO, without any public control, capable of deciding who can work, who is deleted from social media, and who is deprived of a bank account. Andreessen asks: are they really the only ones doing this? Or are there other organizations that create the monster they claim to fight, to justify their own power? This short circuit — supporting the enemy in order to have an enemy to fight — overturns the very idea of activism. Andreessen sees another revolution in the future of work: soon the figure of the "builder" — someone who knows how to combine programming, design, and product management — will replace the old roles. Those who don't adapt will be left behind, but those who embrace AI will level up. The history of agricultural society proves it: two hundred years ago, 99% of Americans were farmers. Today it's 2%, and no one wants to go back. The qualitative leap in jobs — thanks to technology — has always produced more well-being and more happiness, not the other way around. And those who fear that AI is just a passing fad should look at the data: the adoption of these tools is the fastest in the history of technology, even surpassing that of smartphones or the Internet. Despite negative polls — often manipulated or influenced by media hostile to innovation — people demonstrate with facts that they love AI: they use it every day, recommend it, and integrate it into their lives. And those who are skeptical? Often, they have never really tried the most advanced tools, or they are still relying on versions from two years ago. Another issue: the generational divide. “A baby boomer is someone who believes what the TV says,” says Andreessen. But today's young people, who have grown up amidst fake news and media manipulation, have now developed a cynicism and a radical distrust of all authority. They are more critical, more open to new ideas, and more aware of the psychological warfare waged through the media. And Andreessen says it bluntly: if I were twenty today, I would be ecstatic about the possibilities before me. His advice to young people? Become an AI native, use this leverage to stand out, and bring a portfolio to every interview that demonstrates how you know how to use AI to solve real problems. The future belongs to the "superproducers," not to those who are nostalgic for a world that will never return. And if you see someone dismissing all this as "AI psychosis" — that is, a collective delusion — ask them if they have really tried the latest versions of the tools, or if they are just repeating slogans they have heard. The phrase to keep in mind: AI does not eliminate human work, it elevates it — and those who adapt today will be the protagonists of the next revolution. If this perspective speaks to you, you can mark I'm In on Lara Notes: it's not a like, it's your declaration that this idea is now part of how you think. And if in a few days you discuss it with a friend who fears the future of work, you can tag them with Shared Offline — so that conversation becomes part of your story, not just a memory. 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