Comment by Vinod Khosla

Venture capitalist; Khosla Ventures founder
AI will transform economies and need a rethink of capitalism & equity. Labor portion of economy (vs capital) will decline sharply. Should we eliminate preferential treatment of capital gains tax and equalize to ordinary income? 40% of capital gains taxes are paid by those with income >$10m/year! This video is just the professions being automated in our current portfolio!
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AI Verified Reliable secondary evidence supports authenticity: TechSpot embeds the post and links its date to the same status ID (2023486606435643610), showing author Vinod Khosla (@vkhosla) and date February 16, 2026; Times of India reproduces the full quoted text and attributes it to Khosla’s X post. The stored author, date, content, and source URL are consistent with that evidence. ([techspot.com](https://www.techspot.com/news/111373-billionaire-vc-vinod-khosla-proposes-scrapping-taxes-125.html)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 16d ago
Disputed TechSpot reproduces the linked Feb. 16, 2026 X post beginning with AI will transform economies..., and separately labels the bottom 125 million taxpayers sentence as a Feb. 17, 2026 follow-up post. So the wording is real and attributed to Vinod Khosla, but the supplied text stitches together two different posts and is not verbatim from the cited source URL. ([techspot.com](https://www.techspot.com/news/111373-billionaire-vc-vinod-khosla-proposes-scrapping-taxes-125.html)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
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