RT: @rutgerbregman Wow, powerful thread by John O'Farrell, the first outside general partner at Andreessen Horowitz.
He just broke ranks with Silicon Valley on the California billionaire tax.
"I find the knee-jerk opposition of some ultra-wealthy people to the idea of paying any new tax deeply disappointing. To be honest, I can't understand it. They have so much money they couldn't spend it in multiple lifetimes."
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