When the producers of HBO’s ‘Westworld’ wanted to portray the American city of the future, they didn’t film in Seattle or Los Angeles or Austin-they went to Singapore. In an influential 2020 essay Andreessen published on his website titled “It’s Time to Build,” he lamented “crazily skyrocketing housing prices in places like San Francisco, making it nearly impossible for regular people to move in and take the jobs of the future.” He went on: “We also can’t build the cities themselves anymore. He’s also known to have rough edges-passionate to the point of combative and notorious on Twitter for liberally blocking fans and critics alike-certainly not one to hold back his opinions. He helped fund Facebook, Skype, Lyft, Pinterest, Airbnb, Slack, Stripe, and Coinbase, earning a reputation as a kingmaker. But in recent years, a number of very rich people, including the billionaire investor Marc Andreessen, have positioned themselves on the other side of the debate, arguing against supply restrictions and deriding purportedly progressive places for failing to address the rising cost of housing.Īndreessen is not just your run-of-the-mill billionaire he’s a co-founder of the venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and a Silicon Valley bigwig. Why would they? NIMBYism is the dominant fact of American urban geography. Usually when rich people rage against the possibility that someone less wealthy might become their neighbor, nobody bats an eye.
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