Marc Andreesen’s Twitter rant on why robots won’t lead to mass unemployment

Some people have argued that advances in robotics and artificial intelligence will lead to a future of mass unemployment, as robots gradually displace human beings in the workforce. Marc Andreessen doesn't buy it. He was the creator of Netscape, the first commercially successful web browser, and is now a venture capitalist. Here is his argument.

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