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
Insight
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.”
Bill Gates Jun 14, 2024 ▶ 7:10 Nikhil Kamath x Bill Gates | People by WTF | Ep. #1 · Nikhil Kamath
Dec 20, 2024 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
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…”
Kumar Mangalam Birla Dec 20, 2024 ▶ 51:47 Nikhil Kamath x Kumar Birla | People by WTF Ep #5 · Nikhil Kamath
Apr 5, 2025 negative
Insight
Luxon: Bureaucratic solutions often roam around searching for undefined problems
“Governments don't do problem definition well and therefore the solutions are often roaming around in search of problems to attach to.”
Christopher Luxon Apr 5, 2025 ▶ 29:34 Nikhil Kamath x NZ PM Christopher Luxon | People by WTF Ep #7 · Nikhil Kamath
Apr 26, 2025 neutral
Insight
Sharma: Advanced semiconductor fabs require national state support, not just companies
“And again, it's a country play. A company can't build something like this. Country, you know, has to come into it.”
Rahul Sharma Apr 26, 2025 ▶ 2:18:43 Ep #23 | WTF are Consumer Electronics? | Nikhil ft. Carl Pei, Rahul Sharma & Amit Khatri · Nikhil Kamath
Apr 26, 2025 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Carl Pei: 80% of population will live on government income as AI advances
“I think most people are gonna, I think, 80% of the population will just chill and receive income from the government. And a small group of people will leverage the new technologies to push society and humanity forward.”
Carl Pei Apr 26, 2025 ▶ 2:40:26 Ep #23 | WTF are Consumer Electronics? | Nikhil ft. Carl Pei, Rahul Sharma & Amit Khatri · Nikhil Kamath
Dec 20, 2025 neutral
Insight
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…”
Ray Dalio Dec 20, 2025 ▶ 29:10 WTF Is Wealth? Ray Dalio Breaks It Down w/ Nikhil Kamath | WTF is Finance Ep 2 · Nikhil Kamath
Mar 2, 2026 neutral
Insight
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…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 1:08:32 Pain, Power & The Game Nobody Wins | Chamath Palihapitiya x Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
Jul 16, 2026 negative
Insight
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…”
Brian Armstrong Jul 16, 2026 ▶ 1:34:19 Brian Armstrong: Bitcoin, Banks & The New Rules Of Money | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
Jul 16, 2026 neutral
Insight
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…”
Brian Armstrong Jul 16, 2026 ▶ 1:37:40 Brian Armstrong: Bitcoin, Banks & The New Rules Of Money | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
Jul 28, 2026 negative
Insight
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 …”
Matthew C. Klein Jul 28, 2026 ▶ 49:24 They Called The Trade Wars & China's Housing Crash | Nikhil Kamath | WTF is Finance Ep 4 · Nikhil Kamath
Sep 9, 2026 negative
Opinion
Kamath argues Indian government has dead, unutilized stadium and auditorium inventory
“The government has a lot of dead inventory like that stadiums, auditoriums, which are not utilized, nor are they fixed. Somebody needs to prioritize that as well.”
Nikhil Kamath Sep 9, 2026 ▶ 3:00:08 Why A 25-Year-Old Should Build A Hotel, Not An App | MakeMyTrip x Taj | WTF is Travel?
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