government
also referred to as: governments
11 statements across 9 episodes · 0 bullish · 5 bearish · 10 people on the record · first statement Jun 14, 2024 by Bill Gates · across every show →
Everything said about government, oldest first
Jun 14, 2024 negative
Gates: Providing basic needs is the government's job, not philanthropy's
“The basic needs of the people, the safety net, that's not really the role of philanthropy, because you need to count on that year in and year out, and the government, you know, through the political process needs to decide that.”
Dec 20, 2024 neutral
Birla: Corporations Will Soon Rival Governments And Religion As Global Stakeholders
“You know, as we, as I look ahead globally, I think maybe after the church in some parts of the world or the government, of course everywhere in the world corporates are going to be one of the most important stakeholders globally in every, every part of the wor…”
Apr 5, 2025 negative
Apr 26, 2025 neutral
Apr 26, 2025 neutral
Dec 20, 2025 neutral
Dalio: Real estate is uniquely practical to tax because it cannot move
“The practical aspect of real estate in terms of taxing Is because the individual owner of real estate can't take it with them. It is a very practical asset asset to tax for the government because they can always tax that and you can't take it with you versus t…”
Mar 2, 2026 neutral
Palihapitiya: Sovereign governments can and should mandate evaluation standards on AI models
“AI is the first chance to reset those expectations because you can basically say that Anything that is used by my population needs to pass these evals. That is a very, well, I don't know if it's good or bad, but it's a very powerful idea. There is no version o…”
Jul 16, 2026 negative
Armstrong: Government frontier tech licensing only helps incumbents and kills startups
“Whenever somebody says this is so scary, everybody should have to come in and get a license from the government. I'm like, well, the government does a lot of things very well, but the one thing they're not great at is like understanding the very frontier of te…”
Jul 16, 2026 neutral
Armstrong: Large startups in novel areas inevitably attract government scrutiny
“Well, it turns out if you're building in a new area the law is awfully oftentimes unclear. And if your company gets big enough, you will eventually intersect with government. Even if you have no interest in the government will eventually develop an interest in…”
Jul 28, 2026 negative
Klein: Government Protection of Housing Wealth Incentivizes Excessive Borrowing
“Because so many people have the majority, if not the vast majority of their wealth in housing, there is a very reasonable motivation for governments to not want housing prices to go down. I mean, maybe you don't want it to go up a lot, but you certainly don't …”