200th Episode! What Has America Built During the Last 4 Years? Will America Dominate the Globe for the Next Century? Why the Pessimism With So Many Positive Data Points & Billionaires?

The Best Paragraph I've read: Every step of the way, to everyone around us, we should be asking the question, what are you building? What are you building directly, or helping other people to build, or teaching other people to build, or taking care of people who are building? If the work you’re doing isn’t either leading to something being built or taking care of people directly, we’ve failed you, and we need to get you into a position, an occupation, a career where you can contribute to building. There are always outstanding people in even the most broken systems — we need to get all the talent we can on the biggest problems we have, and on building the answers to those problems. This paragraph comes from Marc Andreessen's essay⁠ (⁠https://a16z.com/2020/04/18/its-time-to-build/⁠) on what America should do now.  His answer - Build! Zac & Don celebrate their 200th episode by looking back at the essay and discussing what America has built over the past 4 years. Zac & Don also reference the following Politico essay by Matthew Kaminski: "Welcome to Another 'American Century' Also: We Suck" You can read the full essay here: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/04/24/american-century-confidence-crisis-00153961