Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸
@pmarca · Dec 31, 2023
Specifically, pessimism is easy to sell to young adults, since it sounds world-weary and wise. So it's a cheat code for cynics and depressives who want followings. It's only later that the kids realize they've been sold a bill of goods, and by then it's cost them dearly.
Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸@pmarca· Dec 31, 2023💯 Pessimism as an attitude is fake sophistication, it always has been. Optimism is both more correct and a better way to live!
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Never trust a cynic – they excuse their bad behavior with the rationale that “everyone does it”
05:54 AM · December 31, 2023 · 155.7K views
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