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Vinod Khosla

Venture capitalist; Khosla Ventures founder

AI will favor capital over labor in the historical capital versus labor battle, and so there’s no reason in the AI age to have a capital gains tax that’s different than ordinary income tax.

AI Verified (Mar 24, 2026)

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Vinod Khosla, quoted in “Vinod Khosla thinks 80% of jobs could vanish by 2030,” Fortune, March 24, 2026.

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Governments should tax capital, not labor, as AI makes human work less central to the economy

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