In case you guys aren't aware, A16Z is aggressively trying to meme its way into defense and industrial technology. As usual, they are doing affinity scam approach, but this sort of scam is more durable, and encroaches on people doing real things. Those who know me, know I got into bitcoin because of the gross incompetence of VCs while I built a technology so valuable, it was actually an IQ test that was universally failed outside the DoD and industry -- yes, the VCs are actually more commie than the government!
So many bitcoiners are still coping and refusing to recognize how fucked up an inefficient the fake capitalism is. Even within bitcoin, most find the truth too painful to bear and simply ignore or dismiss it. A16Z has 7 people for "American Dynamism". ZERO technical people. Marc Andreessen is mocking founders and selecting for those willing to submit to his disgusting humiliation ritual.
Today may not be the day, but there will come a day when you inherit the Earth. There will be a day when the valor stolen from real engineers is returned to its rightful owners through the free flow of market forces. This so much more exciting than a rise in personal consumption power could ever be, at least for those who ever felt an urge to build something of substance. There is a great cost to shaping civilization too soon... but there is another sort of cost that comes with facile optimization of simply "dying with the most bitcoin". If I can consider this balance with orders of magnitude less bitcoin than you, you can too.