What Chamath Palihapitiya has said about Universal basic equity

1 quote · 1 episode · Oct 21, 2026

Chamath Palihapitiya, Sri Lankan-born Canadian-American venture capitalist, founder of Social Capital and co-host of the All-In podcast, has been quoted on Universal basic equity once in 1 episode of Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, most recently on October 21, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

Palihapitiya suggests capital could be taxed far more heavily than labor, possibly with labor untaxed.
“there probably is an argument to be made that capital could be taxed much more punitively than labor and that maybe labor should not be taxed at all”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Chamath: AGI Is Here, Anthropic’s $100B Giveaway, Elon’s SpaceX Shares for 72M Kids | EP #304 (Oct 21, 2026) · Listen from 19:26

Episodes

Chamath: AGI Is Here, Anthropic’s $100B Giveaway, Elon’s SpaceX Shares for 72M Kids | EP #304
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Oct 21, 2026 · 2 h 2 min
Chamath Palihapitiya joins the Moonshots hosts to discuss Anthropic's public benefit fund, Elon Musk's SpaceX share gift, AI compute shortages, power, Bitcoin, and investing.

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