government
also referred to as: government · governments · the government
44 statements across 40 episodes · 5 bullish · 23 bearish · 11 people on the record · first statement Jul 31, 2020 by Chamath Palihapitiya · across every show →
Everything said about government, oldest first
Jul 31, 2020 neutral
Mar 20, 2021
Mar 27, 2021 negative
Mar 27, 2021
David Friedberg predicts decentralized online movements will diminish government importance
“Maybe governments themselves become less important in the 21st century. And it's the kind of decentralized online movements and businesses and, you know, other kind of entities that perhaps are not as regulated and controlled and owned by governments.”
Jun 13, 2021 negative
Jul 9, 2021
Oct 9, 2021 negative
Chamath: Fulfilling government moderation demands would collapse Facebook's valuation to $250B
“Here's what I can tell you conclusively. If Facebook wanted to solve these issues in the ways that the government expects in their head for these problems to be solved, Facebook market cap would be two hundred and fifty billion dollars, and they'd have a milli…”
Nov 20, 2021
Jan 22, 2022 neutral
Apr 23, 2022 neutral
Friedberg: Central 21st-century social tension will be crypto versus government control
“It is going to be in my mind, I've said this in the past, kind of the great tension of the 21st century socially, is the decentralized systems that really want to challenge what we believe to be a lot of overreach that's happening by governments against the go…”
Jul 22, 2022
Dec 10, 2022 positive
Chamath: Government regulation is necessary for major social media platforms
“I do think governments have to step in and create better guardrails. So this kind of stuff doesn't happen. I don't buy the whole it's safe, you know, private company. They can do what they want. I think that that is too naive of an expectation for how importan…”
Dec 16, 2022 bearish
Chamath: Fusion innovation will occur in government labs, not private companies
“I would rather the next ten billion dollars go into energy efficiency HVAC than fusion because a fusion exists and b I think it's gonna happen at an innovative bench scale level by the government and not by a private company.”
Jan 27, 2023 negative
Feb 17, 2023 positive
Mar 31, 2023 neutral
Jun 10, 2023 bearish
Feb 9, 2024
Mar 22, 2024 bearish
Apr 19, 2024 negative
Jun 7, 2024
Sep 13, 2024 negative
Dec 20, 2024 positive
Jan 28, 2025 negative
Jan 28, 2025 bearish
Ray Dalio: Sovereign debt is unattractive during supply-demand imbalances
“In either case, you don't want to hold that debt, because either there's a debt service problem, or there's a depreciation, you get paid back with a greater supply and cheaper Money, and that is the dynamics, and that's the mechanism”
Mar 8, 2025
Mar 20, 2025 negative
Apr 11, 2025 neutral
Chamath: Cutting government waste spending will reveal a US technical recession
“As Doge sort of slows down that money flow, and as the consensus in Congress gets to a better budget, I think that you're going to see that the government was probably responsible for a hundred to a 150 basis points of just waste. And if you take that out. You…”
Apr 11, 2025 bullish
Chamath: Trump tariffs will force a Mar-a-Lago Accords global trade framework
“So I think that the Mar-a-Lago Accords, this sort of Bretton Woods two point O is the outcome Ezra. It will basically use tariffs as a way to get these governments to a table and allow us to negotiate a much fairer economic quid pro quo.”
May 31, 2025 negative
Aug 9, 2025
Aug 29, 2025 neutral
Friedberg: Direct government capital, regulation, or buying signals market failure
“It is an indication that the free market has failed in some way if the government is stepping in to either provide unique regulatory unlock, or the government is providing capital, or the government is basically stepping in to be the biggest or primary buyer o…”
Sep 10, 2025 negative
Oct 16, 2025 negative
Sacks: Distrust in capitalism stems from government overspending and overpromising
“That my personal opinion, as you know, is that it's fundamentally a function of overspending by the government and over promising rather than allowing natural market forces to bring everyone up, which fundamentally I think created and creates a lot of the dist…”
Dec 24, 2025 negative
Jan 22, 2026 negative
Jan 24, 2026 negative
Mar 23, 2026 negative
Mahan: Government lacks incentives for outcomes, rewarding performative activity instead
“We have not created an incentive structure in government to reward actual performance and outcomes. And so we are by default rewarding the performativeness of showing that we're doing such a lot of activity without a lot of impact.”
May 29, 2026 negative
May 29, 2026 negative
Sacks: An FDA for AI would inevitably expand into government censorship
“If you create, say an FDA for AI, as many people are calling on, that will give government the power to approve models and therefore give notes to model developers. And very soon this definition of safety will expand because the government always takes an expa…”
Jun 19, 2026 negative
Jul 14, 2026 positive
Aug 12, 2026
Sep 12, 2026 negative
Sacks: AI chat data lacks email-level legal protections against government access
“So right now, the data you have in your AI chats doesn't even reach the same level of protection as email. So in most contexts, if the government wants to get your emails, they would have to get a search warrant, and they'd have to prove probable cause in a co…”